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[mgafunnell]

We all belly ache and complain about how were always being screwed over at work, but what stunts have you pulled in the classroom and have gotten away with?

[yingwenlaoshi]

I once threw a student out the window and he never came back. Never heard anything about it afterwards.

[mgafunnell]

as for myself, i used to a tae kwon do kid to "enforce" my rules @ 500 won/infraction. works like a charm.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Gambling. Playing cards for money, but my money. Probably not a good thing to be corrupting their minds with.

[mgafunnell]

wow dude! you're hardcore. it sounds like you know that trying to do anything with most of these kids is just a pointless waste of time.

[Saxiif]

I once spent two weeks playing nothing but card games because my boss had forgot to order new textbooks for all of the classes and he sure as hell wasn't paying me enough to have me come up with my own lesson plans

[captain kirk]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[oneofthesarahs]

I have one upper-level class that I teach once a week. I have no textbook, nothing I'm supposed to be targeting, and I've been told to "do what you want." I generally take my other classes pretty seriously, but in this one, we just horse around. Most of the time we play Scattegories, Pictionary, or do those personality tests where you draw a house and it tells you what kind of person you are. Sometimes we look crap up on YouTube or Ebay. I really want to buy a kid's version of Catchphrase and a Scrabble board for them.

We have a load of fun, they all love my class, and the director once said I was doing really well with the class. I think they actually are learning, but that kind of thing could only ever work with a group of older, well-behaved students. I think I got lucky.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[ChopChaeJoe]

I once worked totally sick almost 10 days in a row. For a couple days i actually snuck out of classes to blow runny mud.

[Saxiif]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Saxiif]

[Lizara]

OP, I think you may well have set a record for the most whiny threads started here in the shortest space of time.

Saxiif, I probably would have done that too. Screw professionalism. If I'm working somewhere that's professional enough to do their job and provide me the materials I need to do mine, then I'm quite happy to do the best job I can.

What stunts have I pulled? I can't even think of any, unless you count letting a couple of my better classes play Uno from time to time as a reward or when they were obviously too tired to absorb anything I was trying to teach them.