adding to the list...

Ms Brett recently shared with me her association of some of the 8th graders with cartoon characters. This quote come from one we'll call Teletubby, labeled as such mostly because of the way her ADD manifests itself...as continual talking and whining, as well as her tendency to roll on the floor moaning and crying if she gets written up for missing homework (behavior that I have, thus far, only heard tell of...)

This also adds another to the list of people my students tell me I look like (unless I've already mentioned this one, if so, I apologize.)

Teletubby Girl (to classmates): Doesn't Miss Book look like Anne Frank? I swear she does.
Me: Really? I don't think so.
Other students: Yeah! She does! [Holding up book with picture of Anne Frank on it.] Miss Book, do you even know who Anne Frank is?
Me: Of course! (Meaning I had to give a quick summary of her life story to prove it)
Teletubby Girl (to class): She looks like Anne Frank. She thinks I'm just saying that because she's white, but I'm not. [pause] ...Miss Book's not white to me...


Honestly, I AM half Eastern European, so maybe they're onto something with the Anne Frank thing...:-p