I know. I was being a bit facetious. I realize that I was catching/correcting a lot more kids over the first few weeks especially and I know have a better reputation (at least with the freshmen) than I did last year.
It was homecoming week this past week. Kids interpreted the principal's words of "Friday is a chill day" as "Friday, we have a free day and don't have to do any work" Those poor souls when they walked into my classroom yesterday.
Students had to write about their experiences off campus for a reflection this week. I enjoyed this line: "Something that I really liked off campus was I went to a really fun mini golfing place. Other places I have been to include the hospital and Krispy Kreme."
Started in on bones today in Anatomy and when we got to the hands, a girl asked if anyone had heard of that thing where you grab our own thumb and snap you wrist and it can break your thumb. I had just finished saying how I had never heard that and was skeptical about that being a thing and this other girl in the back of class tries it and I hear a pop all the way across the room. Sounded like she was popping her knuckle only louder. She immediately went from laughing to crying. Was telling another teacher after school who used to be a field medic in the navy and he said it was most likely just dislocated from squeezing too hard but she should be fine. A quick google search just now shows this is what they were talking about. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-break-your-thumb-ligament
My thumb used to do this on its own. Broke my thumb down by the wrist and when I got my cast off I couldn't do it any more.
One of my students gave me a heads up that a picture of my 9 weeks exam was going around. - Proceed to give said student substantial bump on their exam grade. (Snitches get rewards in my class) - Made a 2nd version of the test to give to my B-day students - After they bomb the test, I told them I changed the answers key for the test students who tried to cheat “On god Mr. Pearl, why you change the test? You an OP! me damn, that’s tough
They did the same with my tests. I give them online now. Randomizes order of questions, randomizes multiple choice options, and I can even create a pool of extra questions that the computer will randomly choose questions from, so some students won’t even be asked the same questions.
I like making my second version look identical. Lots of graphs or diagrams are on my tests so they look the same at a glance. But every question that has increase in the question gets changed to decrease, or I just move the correct answer to a different choice. Always nice to see the cheaters body language when they score so differently then the person they cheated from. I always like when they call me over to point out that I marked one wrong for them, but not the person next to them. “Try reading the question next time.”
All I did was shift the answers one letter. Damn near screwed everyone who didn’t study. Even found a cheat sheet at the back of my class last block with the answers from the older version of the test. Student that was closest to it made a 36.
We had one teacher who put in the instructions if you put your name on the last page wait 20 minutes then you will get a 100. 2 people caught it while everyone else did the test.
Fucking hated those type of tests, but really taught me to read over instructions and create a plan before starting However, like myself, tests are a real anxiety for me (and millions of other people), and so many times I would just start the test to get it over with. Everything needs to have a lesson behind it, so I hope it wasn’t like my teachers who just seemed to do it to be cruel.
Used to go to the school I teach at. He dropped out, it was only a matter of time. https://www.wlbt.com/2019/10/12/pol...ackson-roadway-appeared-be-assaulted-stabbed/
Had a professor give out 3 or 4 different versions of a test each time. But they were on different color paper.
MADISON, Wis. - After a black security assistant at Madison's West High School was fired Wednesdayfor using the N-word to ask a student to stop calling him by it, American singer and 'Goddess of Pop' Cher tweeted that she would incur expenses for anyone who sued Madison Metropolitan School District Education Board. MMSD has a zero tolerance policy for staff saying the racial slur, leading to Marion Anderson's termination. Anderson argues his case is different because he was asking a student to stop using the term. In response to a Tweet by reporter Madalyn O'Neill, Cher asked how people could be so disrespectful. Recent comments are in support of Cher's Tweet. Students and staff at West High School walked out of school Friday morning and marched to the district administration building two miles away to speak with district administrators about reinstating Anderson and reviewing the zero-tolerance policy.
I just read the Buzzfeed listicle "19 Emails I Can't Believe Students And Professors Actually Sent Each Other" and I'll spare you most of it but this one was pretty funny (If you really want the rest: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/students-professors-emails-college)
3 and a half hours of DPI compliance jargon where the instructors can't deviate from PowerPoints and are reading verbatim Kill me
Ok, this is pretty cool. The girl hosting in this web video was a student of mine my first year teaching. Came to New York as an intern on Last Week Tonight, got into NY Improv, now working at Radio.com
Major project due tomorrow in my classes. A girl just emailed me 10 min ago asking if she can turn it in on Thursday because she was absent on Monday. The project was assigned October 11th
Oh they weren't allowed to play. It was me and a couple of my friends walking them through the hits of the 70s and 90s. An exercise in self aggrandizement, which is why we all do this right?
Gave an assignment this week asking them to plan out a road trip. Had to be at least 800 miles away. Tell me where/how often you'll need to stop for gas/food/rest etc. and the estimated cost. Told them it could be one main destination or they could visit a few different major cities if they needed to add some distance. One butthead said he was going to make the round trip from here to Dallas 8 times, stopping for gas and food at the Bucee's in Terrell each time.
Was just informed that one of co-workers passed away in a car accident last night. A day after another co-worker car was totaled in another accident
Anyone else have to browbeat your ops department into paying their bills? We almost missed out on a deadline for a conference because of a bill that wasn’t paid from Sept. 2018.