Friday, March 24, 2006

It's Hard to Discipline When You Can't Keep a Straight Face

I caught a boy cheating.

He had all of the words for the vocabulary quiz written on his hands.

Then, he came to my desk to ask me a question.

5 comments:

ambrosia ananas said...

Hahahahaha. That's great.

When I was in school, a kid stapled the answers to a vocab test to the front of the teacher's desk.

Th. said...

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And what did you do? I have to admit I don't care about cheating as much as I thought I would. It ends up I really believe that when you cheat, you cheat yourself. And so I just let them fail other ways. I should be harsher, but I think I'm just lazy....

Snow Whiteley said...

I told him I would have to tell the administrator and see what he would do. I wrote the kid up, but I attached a post-it note explaining that he was really just a squirrel of a kid who hadn't gotten in trouble before and asked if we could be easy on him. He only got an after-school detention, so not bad.

His mother, however, wasn't too pleased and probably gave him much worse.

The best thing, though, was just trying to keep a straight face.

Snow Whiteley said...

Ambrosia: Way to be an evil genius. I didn't know you had it in you!

Snow Whiteley said...

Re-reading that, I guess you didn't. For a second, I thought you said that YOU had stapled the answers to the teacher's desk.