So today I am giving a test in 4 of my 6 classes (I wound up losing my prep period and taking on an additional class to cover for a teacher who died mid-year ( Read more... )

We're only in the first class of the day, and I've already broken up one fight... over someone's boots.

I gotta love it when the girlfriend gets down on her knees so that her boyfriend can propose to her...

On the radio, the other day, I heard a news bulletin that stated that 36,000 jobs had been created during the month of January. This had the effect of reducing America's unemployment rate from 9.4% to 9.0 ( Read more... )

So school is coming up on the end of the semester. In fact, the semester ends this Friday. As a result, I have been telling my students for quite some time that they needed to turn in any missing work by last Friday (1/21 ( Read more... )

So this afternoon, I gave one of my classes a quiz. Students were allowed to use notes and old assignments as an aid to the quiz. One student got up to sharpen his pencil. At that point another student swiped his quiz and started madly copying answers. Sadly, she was copying the wrong answers because she swiped an old assignment instead.

1) Please don't tell me that I didn't teach this material to you. You weren't here every day of the last two weeks when we worked on this topic ( Read more... )

so I gave you a packet that contained all your missing assignments. Then I gave it to you again. Two days before the work was due to be turned in, you asked me to give you the work again. I did (apparently I lost my mind). On the day the work was due, you asked if I could give you the work again and an extra weekend to do it (I was a big meanie and ( Read more... )

Per1 3/11 students
Per2 3/11 students
Per4 8/11 students
per5 9/12 students
Per6 6/11 students
Per7 8/12 students
Per8 6/12 students

I have a class where all of my students (well, the ones who showed up today) are sitting silently and working on an assignment... I am not used to that. It feels rather odd.