With the 2007-2008 school year all but over, it’s time to post my annual list of silly things my students have said. Some of these, as always, are pretty darn hilarious. Enjoy! “After years of the case, they finally tested the sperm found from the crime scene for DNA. The DNA turned out to be [...]
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The beauty of high school students is that they really want to say smart things. Kids say the darndest things and all that, but only when they’re seven. When they’re fifteen, they try to say super-intelligent things but just end up sounding like goofballs, and it’s these innocent mistakes that cracks me up so much [...]
Well, the school year is drawing to a close, and I can honestly say that my second full year of teaching has been as enjoyable as the first one was. All year long, I keep track of funny or stupid things student say, and at the end of the year I post a compilation of [...]
In my American Literature class, we read some stuff about the truth behind Christopher Columbus’s treachory towards Native Americans, and I decided to hold a debate in which the students rooted for or against having a holiday for our old buddy Columbus. This student (who was in favor of keeping the holiday) got a little [...]
