guaranteed permanent employment, esp. as a teacher or professor, after a probationary period.
this is a great feat
especially when my students challenge me
on a daily basis
a few fun quotes from the mouths of teens
that mostly leave me speachless
(yelling) "MRS WHIPPLE, If you don't let me go to the bathroom right now I am going to empty my respiratory system all over your room"
Me: "go for it, I'll be sure to have an ambulance waiting for you when you are done"
Student: "I didn't throw the paper at him, I threw it at you"
Me: "Why would you throw it at me?"
Student: "I wanted to see if it would stick to your hair, your hair always looks so nice so I couldn't tell if it would stick"
Me: "huh....A for honesty"
Me: "I want you to really dig deeper to support your claim by going back to the text and finding specific evidence"
Student: "pshh, Mrs. Whipple, you doin' too much"
Student stayed after class to talk to me
"Mrs Whipple, I just wanted to let you know that (boy who shall not be named) kept picking his nose and wiping the buggers under his desk. You might want to clean that up."
Me: "perfect"
"Mrs. Whipple I can tell your getting real mad right now, so I'm just gunna say ma bad. I'm sorry bra- nah seriously fo real I'll be better tomorrow, you see"
Me: "...?"
Me:"We don't say shut up in here"
Student: "I didn't say shut up"
Student: "Well I did say shut up, but I meant to say shut up please"
Student: "Or please shut up, I can't take you talkin' to me nomore"
Me: "..."
Me to a young female student: "You're being awfully spicy right now, we all just need you to take a deep breath and relax for a minute"
Student (angry face on, yelling):"I hate it when you call me spicy, I'm just mad and when I get mad I can be spicy if I want to be."
Me: "...."
EN-velope not ON-velope- ongoing debate
Discussing stress management techniques.
"Mrs. Whipple: Is it true that you can have someone pee on you to sooth a jellyfish sting?"
Me: "...."
Me: "Your giving me agita, will you sit down and try and focus and get your work done please?"
Student: "Oh agita, I love that song"
Me: ".....?"
Student: "huh?"
Student: "ya I would never be a teacher, I just don't know how you do it"
*sigh*
Student:"Mrs. Whipple, someday I feel like you should just punch someone in the face for being so annoying"
Me: "Well, that will ever happen"
Student: "I think it should, God knows I would deserve it"
Me: "So you want to be the person I hypothetically punch"
Student: "Well I deserve it"
Me: "And you know this about yourself? Why don't you stop"
Student: "Sometimes I just like to push the limits"
Me: "....."
Mrs Whipple you dropped my grade by 8 points
Me: "Well, you EARNED 8 less points, you missed an assignment"
"Yeah Mrs Whipple....you know a loop. Like girls get called loops, they loop from guy to guy...basically calling a girl a slut".
And I looked at this beautiful 15 year old girl
with a knot in my throat and said
"you have to believe you are not another person's words....you believe that right?"
she shrugged and then looked down at her iphone
because do we really believe that we are not?
It all goes back to the age old phrase
sticks and stones....
sticks and stones hurt just as much as words
and words hurt without measure.
But that is just the thing
they aren't just words
they can be others perception of
YOU
YOU the person that is supposed to be most natural
the person that is supposed to love you despite the bad
the person that is supposed to catapult yourself to success.
When there is a belief in the words of others
confidence can be shattered.
I feel as though the older and older I get
the more I am experiencing
problems with words.
Not just in others
but my own as well.
How do we cure our language and our expressions
so that the understanding
stands
that words are not just words.
They cost something.
The price of words should not be cheap,
words are feelings
and they carry a weight
heavy enough to reach the depths of our souls.
Words should we like well thought out purchases
considering all options
before picking the shiny new car.
Too bad society doesn't have time or interest to complete the market research
on words
As teachers we can lead by encouragement, and example
but we can't do enough to fix the sadness in kids
not all kids
not all the time
and not enough to shape
their perceptions of themselves.
To solve the problem entirely...I don't know
it seems
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