Just a sampling of the questions I was asked or the answers I was given this past week.
1. Inmate #27350 (during an Algebra lesson):
"After I subtract, I don't got no more x's. Is that right?
Me:
"You mean you don't have any more x's?
Inmate #27350 (much disgusted):
"Geez! I thought this was Math, not English."
2. Me (during a Financial Literacy lesson):
"Now that you've made a budget, what factors could influence it?"
Inmate #37268:
"If my wife or my girlfriend quits sending me money."
3. Me (again, during a Financial Literacy lesson):
"Who should carry Disability insurance?"
Inmate #41023:
"People with disabilities."
4. Me:
"Mr. Smith, it's obvious to me you and Mr. Jones cheated on this test!"
Inmate #37592:
"I'm sorry I gave him the answers, but I'm trying to do what ConQuest says and be a more caring and sharing person."
5. Inmate #37592 (much later that day):
"I know I'm gonna get suspended, but can you just wait until after I finish the 1.5 credits I need to graduate?"
6. Inmate #15083:
"Is that a picture of your weiner dog?"
Me: (frustrated and tired of answering stupid questions)
"No, Mr. Brown, that's a picture of my great dane."
Inmate #15083:
"Oh......hmmmm......, it looks like a weiner dog."
7. Me: (during an Algebra lesson)
"Any questions about the Order of Operations?"
Inmate #39871:
"I'm not doin' Algebra witchall. I'm workin' on Health. What's coitus interuptus?"
8. Inmate #40036:
"I need to pass gas, and out of consideration for my fellow students, I'd like to go out in the hall to do it. That okay?"
9. Inmate #36015:
"How do you spell copacetic?"
Me: (a bit surprised he even knows the word)
"Interesting. How are you using it?"
Inmate #36015:
"Like in 'When I get out, let's you and me copacetic.' "
Me:
"It doesn't matter how you spell it."
10. Inmate #41029 (during a Financial Literacy: Investing lesson):
"I don't really need any of this. On the outside, I'm a stock broker."
Me:
"And yet, here you sit in my High School class. How does that happen?"
I'm tellin' ya.....I don't get paid enough!!!
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Hey sarcasm works on your lot almost as well as it works on mine! Only difference is, mine will grow out of it...hopefully....God willing....Jesus God! Please say they'll grow out of it.....
I'm currently at war with the question, "What's for dinner?" It's the first thing E asks me in the morning. It's the first thing she asks me when she gets home from school. And it's the first thing she asks me when she sits down at the dinner table, "What's for dinner tomorrow?"
I can't tell you how much I hate that question!
Someday when you are a rich and famous author I am going to proudly tell everyone I know that you were my elementary school teacher first. I don't know how you get through the day without strangling one of them... probably how you felt when you taught at Butler too :) We miss you guys and will see you in March!
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