Me: Okay, this is just a pretest, so don’t freak out if you don’t know all the answers. If you got them all right, you would have nothing left to learn and I wouldn’t have a job.
Boy 1: Don’t worry, Miss Trish, I will get every other one wrong just for you.
Me: Thanks, way to take one for the team. Of course, I will be sharing your scores with your parents.
Boy 1: Never mind, I’m going to get them all right. You can be a janitor or something.
Me: What if I’m terrible at mopping? You don’t know my cleaning skill set.
Boy 1: Okay, a window washer.
Me: Those are robots now!
Boy 1: A WINDOW WASHING ROBOT!
Then they made plans for my future career as a window washing robot (one girl wanted me to be a Roomba instead) and it took so long to get them back on task that they rushed the test and got a bunch wrong. Ah, job security.
Wow, I love your blog. Just so you know. School’s pretty much just mindless studying until year 3 when we finally get to do stuff. So your updates are a fun form of entertainment for me during some otherwise bleak weeks. Also, I don’t have cable. Thank you for giving me yet another way to procrastinate.
Those children are so lucky to have you in their life. You are an amazing teacher Trish. I love you. Thanks for making me smile this morning!
I just love the posts about your reading class! You are so creative and do the neatest things with your students. You’re AWESOME Tricia – thanks for PLAID PLADD!
Ultimate job for Tricia: Literary Terminatrix
By day, a mild mannered, yet cleverly snarky purveyor of youth oriented literature. At night, a vengeful crusader against poorly written trashy tween novellas. Superpowers include ability to edit out entire chapters of “Twilight” novels and instantly replace them with chapters from “Nancy Drew Mysteries”, using only her laser guided ink jet peepers which both simultaneously erase the old text and print the new. Her calling card: All the replaced text is the exact same blue as her eyes. Very spooky……
Us old fogies have no sense of imagination……..
Uncle Bill, you are amazing…
Tricia, know you hate that I play Farmville, but you should become my neighbor, just to see the LARGE Library I have on my farm in honor of you. There’s a pretty cool school house as well, but the library is bigger! Love you.
Dear Plaid PLadd,
It is time to change “Updated without fail every Tuesday and Friday” to “Meh, maybe every OTHER Tuesday or Friday”. We know you’re busy with all the tutored miscreants, but we have needs, too. Perhaps it’s the literary terminatrix’s extra curricular activities that keeps us
in the dark. Please post again soon.
You may consider yourself fussed at.