While I was cleaning things out in my classroom, my cabinet was open and my students could see that I, in fact, keep a change of clothes handy:
Sassy Student: Why do you have an extra shirt?
Me: [pausing to think of an eloquent response…] In case of a coffee accident.
Sassy Student: Really?
Me: Yeah. Would you take me seriously if I was trying to teach class with a big ole coffee stain on the front of my shirt?!
Sassy Student: Mr. Youn, I don’t take you seriously when…
Me: DON’T finish that sentence.
Me: [pausing to think of an eloquent response…] In case of a coffee accident.
Sassy Student: Really?
Me: Yeah. Would you take me seriously if I was trying to teach class with a big ole coffee stain on the front of my shirt?!
Sassy Student: Mr. Youn, I don’t take you seriously when…
Me: DON’T finish that sentence.
And file this one under “I’ll take it as a win”:
I had a couple of students go out of their way to get my favorite poison:1
One of them explained:
“Every single math class before this one, I just cheated on every test. This is the first math class I didn’t do that in.”
:)
- Yes, at a thousand calories, it just about qualifies as a “poison”… [↩]