a long week

Wow. It was a week of long days, between labs and basketball games and induction class (for my certification)...fun times though.

"Ms Book! Smart Boy keeps assaulting me about my height!" --FS, who is short. Very short.
"Insulting?" --me
"Don't bother, Ms. Book, we tried telling him, he's just going to keep saying it."

For some reason, FS gets one word in his mind and won't correct it even when made fun of.
"Yeah! I typed 30 words and no arrows!" (computer class)
"Errors! The word is errors!" --all of the other boys

I think he just craves attention. Case in point: somehow we got on the topic of ninjas in science class this week. This was his contribution to the conversation:
"One time, I was in China, and I went to the projects, and they don't use guns, they use karate."
me: "Oh? When were you in China?"
FS: "Last year..."


Speaking of guns, I had another reality check this past week when one of our students lost a cousin...the police shot him during a confrontation because he wouldn't put down his loaded gun. Not to far from the school either.

And they reinstituted "sex patrol" this week. Which basically means assigned posts throughout the school for the period of transition between school and afterschool activities. Preemptive prevention of hanky panky in the halls. For which I had to yell at a kid during a basketball game...he kissed his girlfriend...for an extended period of time...so I yelled his name down the row of seats. I think he was sufficiently embarassed...:-P

Oh! I knew I forgot one. This one is straight from Obsessed with Charmed...one of the 8th grade boys at breakfast one morning:
"Ms Book, you look like Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

What!?!? Okay, so far this school year I've been told that I look like Audrey Hepburn and Sarah Michelle Gellar. I think it's because I'm white and thin and have long hair.