ARGH!!

By Kate on Thursday 11 January 2007 at 18:55

Faced with my class of year 9 again this week, it took me all my strength just to get them to sit in their seats for longer than 20 seconds, and to get them to be quiet was an impossibility. However when I finally managed to get them to listen to my plea of focussing on the purpose of their lesson (to understand how to finish the edges of their acrylic clocks they have made, using wet and dry sandpaper, hardly challenging one would assume) I lost all hope of ever becomming a successful teacher...

Teacher: 'Who can tell me what we use to smooth the edges of plastic?'

A sea of blank faces looked back at me.

'OK, if I give you a clue, it begins with a 'W'.

Still, blank faces.

'You've been using it all week to finish the edges of your plastic.'

Eventually one hand rockets into the air....

'Oh, oh, oh, oh, Miss, I know.........Wallpaper'

That's right, dumbass....you've been learning how to wallpaper 20cm sized pieces of plastic.

I refer back to my title of this first blog of mine.....

8 comments:

On Thursday 11 January 2007 at 20:21, carly said:

lol i love it, but it is so true!!! My lot come out with crap like that all the time!

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 08:00, Mark said:

It sounds like you're both getting off quite lightly; in my CDT lessons we used to throw steel bolts at a spinning sanding wheel to make them fly off in a random direction at high speed.

Oh, and also some people made ninja stars out of stanley knife blades.

But mostly we just made hash pipes.

By the way, congratulations on your first post - it's only what, 6 months after I sent you your login details? Smile

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 17:31, pablo said:

i remember when Fat Ben cut all the plugs off about 10 soldering irons, and ground all the ends off some screwdrivers with an angle grinder and stuck the hot end on your arm. happydays

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 17:37, Mark said:

Yeah, happy days indeed. Some people said we were unruly, and maybe we did burn some holes in things, but hey, at least we knew what sandpaper was.

And how to use it to fire bolts at each other.

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 18:10, carly said:

ok, so you were worse than what i have. But i don't keep soldering irons and screw drivers in my class room! I did however confiscate three syringes yesterday! No one suprisingly knew where they came from! I got smacked in the head by a racket last year! That hurt!

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 18:11, Katie said:

I'm so so happy my kids are brighter than you...

On Friday 12 January 2007 at 18:14, carly said:

Oh yeah, in science we are doing a topic on light! They had to write what they knew about light sources. One child decided that light went through the earth to reach the other side and that a pen was a natural source of light! This is what i have to deal with!!!

oh and can any one turn this decimal into a fraction?

4.67.


On Saturday 13 January 2007 at 03:34, carly said:

ok so you would have all failed year 6 SATs! it is 4 67/100

and a pen isn't a natural source of light.

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