Things My Students Say

Just a brief update today, in case anyone (probably no one) was wondering if I'd died or disappeared or somehow wandered into North Korea and become personal friend of the Dear Leader or become bored with this and decided to run away to join the circus. None of these potentially terrible things have happened! In fact, I've been super busy. My weekends I still spend doing fun things, though most of those fun things now involve looking at fabulous clothing and wishing my paycheck were coming sooner, and my weekdays are still spent shaping young minds.

Well, sort of shaping young minds. Today, I present to you:

Things My Students Say

When discussing AIDS:
"Teacher...I wish I had AIDS. I really really want AIDS."
This gem came from one of my wise-ass students who sits in the back drinking Sprite, pretending he's a badass. He is not, but he gets an A for effort. He sort of undermines his badass status by getting perfect scores on his quizzes.

When discussing the Harlem Renaissance:
"Teacher, I think you really like black people."
"Well, yes. I like all people."
"Really???"

On the topic of racism:
Me: "...so that is why racism is bad."
Students: "Teacher, I think racism is okay because it is okay to hate the Japanese because they are terrible."
"Yes! We should kill them all!"
"We should bomb them!"
"No, we should NUKE THEM!"
"THE JAPANESE ARE EVIL!!"

Randomly:
Student:"Teacher, are you rich?"
Me: "Ha. No."
"Really?? But you dress so well!"

When discussing disease:
Me: "So, what would you do if you were the leader of a country and the neighboring country had a very serious disease killing its population. How would you protect your country?"
Student: "KILL THE NEIGHBORS!!"

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That's all I have time to do for now. I will update this again later. I must go teach now!