Never Give A Student “Free” Time

Due to some factors that are fairly much out of my control….my students today have had “free” time.
 What this means is that they can read, work on other assignments or talk quietly to each other.

SO….. imagine my pure…….um……….ANNOYANCE SHOCK DELIGHT when THIS little phrase wafted gently across my classroom…at a volume level of a few bazillion decibels:

HEMAPHRODITE IS WHEN YOU HAVE A DICK AND A PUSSY!!

 

Well, I suppose I should be glad that they sort of learned something somewhere, right???

 

Hope everyone had a great Turkey Day – I’ll be trying to catch up with all of you!!!

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November 29, 2004

yikes, I would have hit my head on the desk with that one..

what grade do you teach? if you felt compelled to say something, you could have maybe replied with saying it in more appropriate terms instead of “dick and pussy”. i don’t know, just a minor suggestion, if it comes about again or really bothered you.

*smacks head* oh my. What grade do you teach? I agree. Free time is bad. 😉

bd
November 29, 2004

lol…that is priceless

November 29, 2004

You’re right. At least they learned something! LOL. I would have had to leave the room for a bit due to serious laughter. I don’t think teachers are supposed to giggle at times like that.

November 29, 2004

you have to just love junior high kids, really you do. I know, I have one. Can I send her over? Please? 🙂

November 29, 2004

My dictionary says there’s an r between the e & m. We had one of those at my Death Valley CCC camp back in the 1930ies. “He” also had one boob, but was a nice normal person otherwise.

November 29, 2004

Well, at least they showed they understood the meaning! I still remember vividly, after nearly 30 years, a 13-year-old girl in my Indonesian class describing Balinese family life, as told by visitors to her home the previous night: “In theory men and women are equal.But in practice the women do all the work and the men sit around all day stroking their cocks!” I cut in quickly….

November 29, 2004

..”Yes,cock-fighting isvery popular inBali, The men take very good care of their roosters.” (or something similar.) The class settled; it was still the age of innocence and most of the girls,anyway, didn’t recognise the second meaning. But I thought I was going to explode with laughter for the rest of that class!

November 29, 2004

actually. . . we discussed hermaphodites (sp?) in my Trig class in 11th grade. . . it was funny. Because the teacher was talking about probability. . . and of course, she was pregnant. . . and she’s like “well, the probability that my baby will be a boy is 1/2 and the probability that it will be a girl is 1/2 and the probability that it will be a boy OR a girl is 1/1. . . and someone asked. . .

November 29, 2004

. . . “what about if it’s neither?” and she was like “well, that’s uncommon enough that we can discount it. You don’t generally go up to some pregnant woman and ask ‘Oh, when are you due? are you expecting a boy, a girl, or a hermaphodite?!’ because it doesn’t happen that often” so of course, at least once a week, someone would ask her if she was having a boy, girl, or hermaphodite. lol.

November 29, 2004

At least you can’t call them IGNORANT savages!

November 29, 2004

Doncha just love ’em? LMAO Hugz

November 29, 2004

As in Chaney and Bush? Heh, heh. Just kidding. Your class cracks me up. I wish they wouldn’t take up so much of your time though, so you could tell us more about your days with them. I’m always so glad when I see you here.

BBe
November 29, 2004

*big smiles* Do they never cease to amaze you? I’m glad that learning time is all the time.

November 29, 2004
November 29, 2004

FREE TIME for students??? Where, oh WHERE, can I buy me some of that?!? Please!

November 29, 2004

oh my goodness…

November 30, 2004

Falls over laughing….then I read Willy’s note and fell over laughing again! Honestly, I don’t know if your Jr High kids should have “free time” anymore **Snickers**. Maybe they should at least have dictionaries and a thesaurus at their desks.*rolls eyes* Should I send you fluffy ear muffs to wear during any free times that come up in the future? And what color would you like them to be?

November 30, 2004

RYN My husband’s degree is geophysics. Right now he is doing enviromential geology type things, and his official job title is project geologist. I know there is a lot of stuff there in FL, he has been told that by many many people, and he has had many people respond to his resume, and all that. It is just they tend to go with someone local, and just moving there without a job is too scary for us