JG is dealing with the crush of work that comes with the close of the marking period at school. In addition to all of the normal grading and reporting, kids forget about their make-up assignments, and parents get up at arms. It is not a fun time in Teacher World, and it results in conversations like the following Gchat excerpt:
JG: now i’m doing comments
so fun for report cardsRA: haha
JG: it’s so dumb
how can i stereotype your student in 5 pre decided words or less?RA: if only you could write in how you really feel
is there any comment for “is about average”JG: no there isn’t
RA: what a shame
JG: and with it all being on the computer there is no reason i shouldn’t be able to type in my own comment
and personalize themRA: Your kid is a lump on a log
I look forward to your child’s contributions to my Value Meal
HAHAHA.
that would be WAY too tempting for me
but then, I am meanJG: haha
yes
And that is just one of many reasons why whenever people ask me if I am a teacher, it is all I can do to stop myself from laughing in their faces.
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if joe was a teacher he would be coming up with hilarious things to say about students too. i love the value meal line. that cracked me up.
I don’t tend to think of you as a particularly funny person, mostly because your blog is not meant to be a humor column.
But now I think you are hilarious. The McDonalds line was awesome. Yes, it is probably for the best that you aren’t a teacher.
Oh man, I kind of miss doing comments. Once I wanted to write, “Your child is a non-entity who makes little to no contribution to most situations.”
Ha! If only the options were written by you, RA. But why are they writing comments on report cards? In high school? We never had any such thing- all we got was a letter and a GPA.
hah! Your comments are awesome. I guess if I was to suggest that a kid is average I would have to say something like, ’s/he is keeping up well with the rest of the class.’
My MIL is a Grade One teacher and most of the parents of her students don’t even speak English, so you can imagine how much fun that would be. Really, you just need to teach in a college setting where you can be a mean professor and be much more honest.
Me too, my friend. Me too. Tim is always telling me teacher stories and I’m always thinking “I’m so glad I just have to deal with poorly phrased sentences all day.”
Speaking of grammar, today I encountered a noun that was, all at once, made singular, plural, AND possessive. It was like the person who wrote it just couldn’t decide which way it should be, so she went ahead and made it all three. That takes true talent.
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