(Watching the trailer for Finding Nemo in class because I am still not sure why they let me teach.)
Student 1: I don’t get this trailer. Where’s Nemo?
Student 2: It’s literally called FINDING Nemo, you idiot!
Student: I did terribly on my stats test and my average dropped 5 points! I don’t understand how that happened.
Me: I wonder if there’s a class you can take to help you figure it out.
Student: Why did I get a D on my paper?
Me: Look at the paper you submitted and you tell me.
Student notices he uploaded his outline rather than the paper.
Student: Okay, a D is actually generous here.
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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Wife: How did so much popcorn end up on the floor?
Me: What an intriguing mystery!
A thank you card with three drawings of me in colorful shirts, titled “The Different Faces of Mr. A.” Text of card reads: “I love your class a lot. Your assignments are really creative and fun to do. I love how you always care for your student’s opinions. Thank you for being the coolest teacher I have ever had.”
The best card I have ever gotten. This is what keeps teachers going. From an 11th grader.
Overheard (11th grader): You can tell your attorney that you did it and they can’t say nothing because of lawyer/patient confidentiality.
One of my students was giving a presentation today and before she started, she said, “No AI. All brain.”
I need that on a T-shirt.
Student just took a standardized test with an essay.
“Hey, Mr. A, I wrote four paragraphs, had a thesis statement, and used the word ideology. Do you think I passed?”
Student: I would give this book a 3/10 but only because I hated the teacher.
Me: …
Student: Oh! Sorry. I also read it last year.
11th Graders
Student 1: Gatsby deserved to die.
Student 2: No one deserves to die.
Student 1: Yes he did. He was delusional. And he was having an affair with a married woman who had a kid. If you cheat, you deserve to die.
Student 2: You said the exact same thing about John Proctor last month!
Yeah he has always been one of my favorite poets. I feel like he was under appreciated by many.
Amherst is a great school! Did you get a chance to study with James Tate?
When this came out, I was amazed how it perfectly encapsulated how I felt. I always felt a lot of the narratives surrounding depression never applied to me and then @annaborges.bsky.social nailed it precisely. I return to this article often.
I noticed that. Very odd.
Today I learned that comradery is a valid spelling of camaraderie. This has vexed me more than I would have thought possible.
A ceramic cow shattered into four pieces.
A student made this and gave it to me three years ago. But today there was tragedy.
“The cow, the old cow, she is dead;
It sleeps well, the horned head”
- A.E. Housman
(For the record, I knocked it over. Entirely my fault.)
When people say,
"we have made it
through worse before"
— Clint Smith
*with alt text*
Agree to disagree?
So many new followers. I’m a high school English teacher from Northern Virginia. Have an MFA in Poetry from Indiana. Here’s my favorite poem that I’ve published: ogre.red/issues/2022-...
Why did so many Dems vote yes?
There’s this one by @amorak.bsky.social go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ
I really like that there seems to be no ads.
Trying Bluesky again. Feels empty but so do I?
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