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Student: Why did you mark this? What's wrong with this?
Me: Are you asking me why I marked the eventhough on your paper?
Student: Yes.
Me: Even though is two words.
Student: No, it's not.
Me: Yes, it is.
Student: You're kidding me.
Me: Nope.
[A few beats later] Student: I got As in high school English, you know.
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Me: So what do you want to say about this paper?
Student: Well, for starters, it was juvenile.
Me: You mean the way you wrote it was juvenile?
Student: No. The assignment was.
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Those silly students! I have heard this one recently as well. I think the public school system has grade inflation issues.
Oh Jess. I know. I know.
That's where I had fun as a teacher. I really ragged on the douchebags who thought they knew better than me. Since it was a one-on-one conversation, I could cut loose and make them very small and still have no guilt.
I win!
oh my. do you have premeds?
My students -- first-year English Comp classes -- all wrote about such elevated topics as "going mudding," and a solid 90% of them waxed lyrical on "Tombstone" when the subject was "a movie or book that has affected you in a profound way." I ask you.
Ha, Anne. I do not have any pre-meds. I have Engineers, mostly. They're a bunch. Real humdingers.
Gleemonex: mudding? Now that's classy.
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