Why My Students Are Some of the Most Interesting People in the World

Obviously, I must protect my students' (and my own) privacy, but here are some of my favorite teaching stories from recently:

1) One boy, who is super hyper and almost always unable to sit through a whole class period, managed to survive state testing... (for those of you who don't know, this is where students sit still for 5 mornings a week for approximately 4 hour stretches with 5-15 minute breaks in between). During break, though, he could get a bit unruly. One day, while they were drinking their juice and eating their granola bars, he began running around the room because of something another student had said. I yelled at him to stop because he was going to spill his juice. So he stopped, and, standing perfectly still, spilled his juice right in front of me.

2) This same boy, later that day while we were playing a game, managed to launch himself off of the desk he was sitting on and fly halfway across the room because he'd just scored his team a point. I literally turned around to pull the next question and when I looked back, he was sprawled across the floor inches from the whiteboard.

3) One girl, who is very small, just sat inside a locker before class one day and waved at me to prove she could fit. I took a photo.

4) I travel from one classroom to another over the course of my school day and the kids are always there before me since they have that same classroom for another class. One day as I arrived in this classroom, I found the kids tying another kid up with duck tape. "He wanted it!" the cried. I just kind of nodded and told them they couldn't move until I got a picture.

5) My students are no longer allowed to eat in one of my classes because they argued over a Nutella jar (out of which they like to eat spoonfuls) and it somehow ended up flying across the room while I was trying to teach.

6) They make marshmallow mustaches.

7) They take nicknames seriously and make very odd ones for their friends and classmates (which would be insulting to anyone else.)

8) Some students cannot go one day without drawing random inventions on my whiteboard. Other teachers, in walking by, have claimed the drawings look inappropriate. In that case, the student in question was drawing a basketball court.

9) The stories they tell.... which I shall not repeat!

10) One day, two of my students got a hold of my phone and changed my lock screen to a picture of themselves making duck faces.

If any of my students are reading this, keep up the funny stuff! Also, study... finals are coming up! For those of you who are not my students, enjoy the humor. Teaching is never boring.

Cassondra