Maybe All Teachers Are a Little Bit Crazy #1

My Spanish teacher was talking about how she used to study Spanish, and she said (in English), "It's a lot of work, but that's what I did, when I was studying. I grew up on a farm. Winter nights are long on a farm. I did a lot of school work because I was so bored. There aren't animals so much in the winter as there are in the summer, you know what I mean?" I looked at the person sitting next to me, and we sort of almost laughed. No I don't know what you mean, I was thinking.

My English teacher assigned us to criticize something "phony" in the voice of the main character of The Catcher in the Rye. The person sitting next to me asked, "what if there isn't anything I consider phony?" and the teacher said, "Nothing you consider phony? There are lots of things I can think of that I would call phony."
"Like what?" the student asked.
"Well, I think faculty meetings are sometimes phony. They talk to us like we're children, sort of dumbing down what they're saying. I sometimes just want to stand up and say 'This is so phony!' And rice cakes are phony,"
"How?" We asked.
"Well, they're all processed, and compacted, they seem like plastic..."

Now, the same day that these two things happend, in my physics class, the teacher was picking names out of a hat to choose people to go up and draw position vs. time graphs on her SmartBoard. She picked a person who had just left to the bathroom, and she said, "Saved by the toilet!"

Parts of these quotes are approximated, but I guarantee, they actually happened. If your teachers do anything funny, feel free to write All Teachers are a Little Bit Crazy #2, or #3, and so on for infinity (or until we get out of school).

-Rebecca