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If you haven't read this post and this post, you have been missing out! Read them now.

A couple of my grade 11s were talking about a kid in school who was trying to convince them that 2012 was going to happen. That we will be hit by meteors, etc. I asked them who the kid was and, lo and behold, it's my former student. Oh happy days! I asked them if they had any more tales from him. They repeated a few I already knew (and posted) but here are a couple more that they SWEAR he said. I totally believe them.

- Him and his dad lifted a car engine, by hand, and put it back into said car.

- His dad once benched 1 000 pounds.

I miss teaching this kid! What a weirdo.

An Honest Mistake

I asked one of my grade 10s to write on the big calendar that we have an optics test next Thursday.

She wrote: Optits Test.

The 13 year old boy within me laughed a bit.

Their purrs help with the fingerprintin'

From one of my colleagues:

Situation: A grade 12 Biology class

Scenario: A paper mock-up of the process of DNA fingerprinting (specifically, a paternity case). Students need to cut up DNA sequences at a restriction enzyme sequence and use a 'probe' to identify matching coding sequences.


The coding sequence: CAT

The probe: GTA (obviously ;) )

Overheard:

Partners at one desk:

"Got all the CATs highlighted?"
"yeah"
"ok, go through them now and add the GTAs"

kid at neighbouring desk:

"I really don't get what this has to do with cats"

Movember

So if you are reading this and don't know who I am, well I rock a beard and have for the last few years.

However, I shaved it off at the start of at the end of October for Movember. I have been growing it back steadily over the last couple of weeks and I have been getting my students to vote on the moustache style I should shave it into. I figure a quarter a vote would be a good way to help raise a bit of money for prostate cancer.

Anyways, I was talking with my period 3 grade 10s about how if the zorro style 'stache wins (which it currently is...) I'd had to have a bit of a five o'clock shadow (so it doesn't look as creepy). To which one of them interjects:

"Oh, my mom has one of those."

This same student, minutes later, asked if wintergreen lifesavers were only available during the winter.

It should be noted that she is the one to ask the 2011 question, previously posted.

So this just happened...

"Sir, it's 2011, right?"

Good Luck With That

An assembly was held period 4 yesterday to recognize the students who achieved either honours (+80%) or merit (75-79%) in their courses from the previous year.

On Wednesday I asked my period 4 class "Who is attending the awards assembly tomorrow?" so I could get an idea of how many would be absent. Three of them spoke up and said they were going. Cue this student who was clearly half listening...

Student: "Sir, is there, like, a buy-out for that thing tomorrow?"

Me: "Yeah. Go back to last year and do better in all of your classes"

I'm a dick.

Complex equations

The desks in my lab inevitably fill with garbage. Many students feel that the desks are their own personal garbage can. It is disgusting and every couple weeks I pick a student, who is being a jackass in class, and get them to clean ALLL of them. Free labour!

However, at the end of some days I will walk around and clean up some of the more offending messes AND, every now and then, I will find notes or doodles which I find hilarious. The one i'm about to share is just plain weird. [This has been transcribed as accurately as possible (the penmanship is awful)]

Safatuation + Bball Manager = FUN, tournaments, honour of giving C. THUNDER water, towels & massages
         = MAD
      PUSSY