Quotes of the week (1-4-10 to 1-8-10)

So some of my more “Intelligent students” and I am using this term very loosely, since a couple of them did make my list of things they say in school. Which brings me to this change in my blog, I am only going to post a new blog a least once a week of actual quotes that they say for that week. If I don’t get enough for the week I will just put it for the following week. Since this is the first time I am week I am doing this it’s going to be short. I will not put actual names of student on here to protect them from ridicule from their peers.
Let me set this up for everyone, the class is doing an activity in groups and not everyone can participate all at once so some of them are doing other things while they wait their turn. So one of my students that was waiting was reading a book and this is what he said,

“Man this book has a lot of words”

In the same class, another student and the student prior were messing around when he stated.

“Read your book with pages”

Here is the next one from a different class, I was talking to the class and told them that I was no longer going to log on all the computers in the morning instead I would give them the password for the computers. It only works in the room and I monitor and record everything they do so I figure why not. This is what he said after I gave them the password,

“I would have never gotten that!”

I just looked at him and said, “Well if I made it easy for students to figure out then it would not be much of a password.” More to come, it will just take some time.

Phone and detentions

Well about two weeks ago I gave this kid a detention for having his phone out during passing period. Rules state that now electronics are to be used what so ever during the school day. In my class I am a bit lenient on this. I figure as long as they get their work done than it is fine by me.
I am doing hall duty between classes when this kid is playing on his phone walking directly towards me. He runs in to me and I ask for his phone, confiscating it for the day. He said I was just looking at the time, now like I said saw him about 50 ft away walking towards me, so I asked him what time was it. "I don't know," as I looked at him. Well I gave him a choice, give up his phone or detention. This kid could not understand what the hell I was talking about, "I was just looking at the time", but still could not tell me what time it was. Oh also there are also clocks in the hallway, so really easy way out for him. Needless to say he kept arguing and well, I kept repeating his choices. Guess which one he picked? Detention! Ya rather than just spend the day without his phone he get to spend two hour of his Saturday morning in detention. Apparently the kid is not the smartest out of the bunch, I got that info from some of his classmates in my class after they saw the entire thing and could not believe what he did. For the most part, he would have just been given a slap on the wrist, depending on how many times he had his phone taken away from him. This little incident happened about two weeks ago, today he comes up to me asking me if I had his ID, I told him know and that your ID is with your principle. So I figure he is now going to try to skip his detentions and causing them to double. All this cause he would not part with his phone for 2 hours, it was after lunch when this happened.
Yesterday I had another phone incident, kid walking right in front of me and is about to start texting then he looks up and try to hide his phone. I stopped him of course and ask for his phone, his response, "I was turning it off." "Oh OK let see it", as I looked at his face turning red. Guess what when we pulls the phone out it was still on and it was on a reply to a text. He gave it up with no more arguments and he got it back at the end of the day. He was a smarter kid apparently. My point, if you are going to lie to someone make it believable. Hope they never become lawyers cause then someone's going to jail

To write a book or not to write a book?

I am a high school teacher that also did some time in the middle school. It was not a hard choice to move from middle school to high school or so I thought. I love my career and would not change it for anything, well except the pay maybe. Oh and for those of you that we only work for part of the year, I welcome you to do my job for a week and see how you like it. People are so unaware of the crazy things teachers have to do in one regular day. These are to the parents that aren't being parents your kid is not an angel you think they are. Sure I know everyone thinks their kid can do nothing wrong but really some of the things we deal with are unbelievable.
That is why I decided to write about it and show what really happens when you leave 13 -18 year old teens in a building for 8 hours a day. Some are funny and some are down right stupid. I have see and heard some of the most off the wall questions and comments that I always tell my self I need to write these down and sell it well here you go. None yet but everyone is hard at work trying to finish work before Christmas break.
Oh no identity of any child or teacher will ever be used in this blog, for all you legal types out there.