Doubts

Lately, I've starting having doubts if I genuinely instruct high school. 

Evidence:

(These are all actual things I've works life myself maxim this week!) 

1.  "Please accept the cardboard box off of your head."  As review for the EOI, my Algebra 1 students were playing Around the World.  One of my class periods was genuinely into the game.  I had students yelling when they didn't advance.  After i educatee lost, I looked over to encounter him laying inwards the flooring similar he was well-nigh to have a temper tantrum.  Later, I await dorsum over, together with he is sitting inwards the flooring amongst a cardboard box on his head.  And, this was no pocket-sized cardboard box.  It was in all probability three feet tall, two feet wide, and 1 human foot deep.  I had gotten some fundraiser material inwards it for educatee council.  I yet can't figure out why inwards the globe he would experience compelled to house it over his head...   

2.  "Please halt making pterodactyl noises."  Honestly, I don't know if they were pterodactyl noises.  But, my students said they were pterodactyl noises.  And, they were extremely annoying together with distracting.  How work nosotros fifty-fifty know what pterodactyls sounded like?  I'm pretty certain they went extinct a long fourth dimension earlier nosotros had the agency of recording sounds.  And, of course, every bit presently every bit i educatee starting making pterodactyl noises, the other students sitting to a greater extent than or less him had to firstly making them, too.  It's really hard to continue a direct human face upward spell repeatedly scream for students to halt making pterodactyl noises.   

3.  "Please don't lick your desk."  One of my students idea it would be more fun to potable his Sprite past times pouring pocket-sized amounts from his bottle into the cap of his bottle together with drinking it from there.  Another educatee idea it would move funny to make his desk shift slightly at the exact instant he went to accept his drink.  The student's capful of Sprite ended upward spilling all over his desk.  Not wanting it to learn to waste, he decided he would lick it off his desk.  At i point, I genuinely saw his oral fissure affect the desk.  The other students were outraged, too.  And, I scream back their comments may direct keep been to a greater extent than powerful inwards stopping him than my plea.  I would non consume anything that touched the peak of i of my students' desks.  They mightiness learn cleaned every nine-to-twelve weeks.  (Though, I work direct keep i educatee who brought her ain bottle of Clorox wipes to shop inwards my classroom.  And, she sanitizes her desk together with her friends' desks every twenty-four hours earlier class.)     

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