3 posts from December 2008

Here's a conversation I had with a student in my 8th period at the high school:

JT: Mr. S, I had a crazy dream last night that you were in.
Mr. S: Really? Tell me about it.
JT: Naw, you don't don't want to know.
Mr. S: Okay, then don't tell me.
JT: You don't want to know about my dream?
Mr. S: You told me I didn't want to know.
JT: Do you want to hear about it?
Mr. S: Sure.
JT: You and MW got into a fight.

[The obvious next question...]

Mr. S.: Well... Who won?
JT: He got a couple good licks in, but you took him out and made him urinate on himself.

So... A girl in class dreamed I beat her best male friend so badly that he pissed himself. What does that mean, Dr. Freud?

One of my geometry students at the high school did not pass his Algebra I state test last year (so did many others, and yet they all passed their class and moved on--go figure), and so had to re-take it this year.

He got his scores back this week, and came to me right after he read them. He proudly announced that he did not miss a single geometry competency question this time.

Perfect geometry score for my current geometry student. Pretty Awesome.

Here's an actual conversation I had today...
I'm obviously Mr. S, and my students are named using only initials. This takes place right after lunch, on a sunny, but cold, December morning.

DH: Mane, why y'all hurryin back to class? You know we're just gonna have to do work when we get there.

PW: Yeah! We always be doin work in Mr. S's class.  Some teachers around here don't make us do nothin. Like Ms. B last year.

DH: They just don't even care what we doin in their room. Some teachers just don't be doin their jobs.

Mr. S: What did you say about that teacher from last year who didn't make you do anything?

PW: She just didn't even care.

Mr. S: Why would you say that?

PW: She didn't make us do anything.

Mr. S:Oh, so the amount of work teachers give you tells you something about them?

PW: Yeah, you always be pushin us and tryin to make us do better.

Mr. S: Yeah, and why do you think that is?

PW: You care.