Today's Joy

[learnteach]

In the class on population dynamics, relating the personal to the abstract:

Student one: "Why the hell do you ask us these questions? What the fuck has this got to do with anything?"
Me: "Please watch your language, and it's a class on population dynamics."
Student: "What the hell is wrong with my language and why do you hate me so?"

that's a sure win

Student two: "The homework was coloring? You never taught us to color!"
Student three (sick of the discipline): "YOu ever go to kindergarten or anything like that?"

Student four: "This poster is tagged, may I take it?" Teacher: "YEs, please." Student in back of room "Don't take that!" (tagged with HIGHLY inappropriate writing, calling another student a loose woman in more graphic language.) Good give away, yah?

This is amazingly exhausting.

Comments

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

"You never taught us to color!"

Seriously? I'm gonna hurt myself laughing.

Seriously.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Please don't hurt yourself. I also asked them to divide 65 by 100 and round up; out of 72 students coming through the room today, 14 were able to complete the instruction without additional help...

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No, really; one of the students doesn't know how to divide unless the problem is in single digits.

Re: Seriously.

[katanubis.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're teaching special needs children.

Re: Seriously.

[jauncourt.livejournal.com]

Or Junior College students.

Re: Seriously.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

People have to be taught how to color? I can't remember a time when I could not make marks on paper.

That's .7 or 1, right? GM and I argued for a moment what you meant by "rounding".

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

You clearly need to be taken to dinner.
Pick a day next week.
k

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

thank you for the giggles.