sufficient

they got me good

But I retaliated in kind:

Last period today, I walked into my classroom and all of my students were sitting in the wrong desks. Someone did something to make sure I was aware of this fact and I told them I did not care that they were not in their correct seats. One child responded something to the effect of "I can make you care," to which I responded, "You better not do anything to make me care."

So then, I call someone's name and someone else responded, which slightly confused me, until I called another student's name and the student sitting in that student's seat responded. Then I figured out what they were doing with the name-switching thing and they carried on for the remainder of the class period, with me playing along, calling on the person they were impersonating.

Then, I asked them to get their copies of As I Lay Dying out. And they all threw them in my general vicinity (not so much at me...). So I picked them up and distributed them to their impersonators-for-the-day. This elicited a great bit of angst as many of them had not annotated the assigned pages for the day and therefore were afraid of the grade they would get. Instead of checking their annotations, I gave them a quiz: 1. What's your birthday?  2. What's your address? 3. What are your parents' names? 4. What is your class schedule? 5. Where did you go to school in 4th grade?

And they eventually conceded defeat.

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posted by CP @ 3:51 PM 4 thoughts