Donate Now Today, after school, I was holding a funnel.  A small, innocent, funnel. Student:  Oh!  Are we going binge drinking? Me:  What? Student:  With the funnel!  Are we binge drinking??  [Grabs funnel, leans back and pretends to binge drink from the funnel]  Isn’t that what you use these for? Me:  [Trying--and failing--not to laugh] …

Donate Now So the school’s talent show is tomorrow night, and one of my 4th period sweethearts is going to sing.  The other day, the choir director was telling me how great she is.  The following conversation ensued:  C:  Hey A!  Are you in the talent show? A is TOTALLY bashful about it… Me:  Oh yeah! …

I have strange students. One of my 4th period goofablls goes through phases of playing with her syntax.  A few weeks ago, she would make everything plural:  “Misses, I’m not dones with my Daily Math Reviews.”  “Jessicas, can you helps mes?”  “Is it times for our lunches?” Thankfully, she grew out of that.  Now, however,…

While discussing triangles–Right, Acute, Obtuse, Scalene, Isosceles, AND Equilateral: J: Miss, how do you memorize all this stuff? R:  Because she’s a woman! Me:  Ex-CUSE me?! R:  Women have good memories. Me:  I–uh–ok.  I don’t have any good trick to mem– R:  That’s why you can’t cheat on them. Me:  WHAT?? R:  Because then they’ll remember and they’ll hold it over you…