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[aloysha]

Maybe it is just me, but the increasing cacophony
of pen clicking is killin me (all 30 students at the same time!).
It is as if each pen has some acoustic
apparatus to amplify the click to "11".

I have banned the clicking and made a "breaking motion"
to the students, so they know the score if I catch them

On another note, there is a girl in my 1st grade
class that always has a roll of toilet paper on her desk.
She spends the whole time just rolling tissue between her
hands and making little "things". Tissue is all over her desk

Thing is, I can't even give her points for creativity, as most
of her creations are just lumps of rolled tissue.

I try hard not to laugh whenever I see her, but it is
one of the oddest things I have seen.

Thanks for listening

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I had one who changed her English name from Sharon to Krazyblood and would write disturbing things on her handouts like 'wristcut syndrom'. She enjoyed catching insects with sellotape and watching them die. Her hobby was collecting disturbing pictures. She was actually quite a good English student and well behaved in the classroom but I wonder if I'll read about her in the papers some day.

[Sland]

During conversation class, I asked my kids what they'd do if they got 3 wishes from a genie. Most of them gave me "tall" "smart", normal stuff. This one kid told me that he'd wish to destroy the world so he could go to heaven. I asked him to repeat it, because I thought I misheard, but that's what he said.
I wonder whose kid'll make the papers first.

[i]

Maybe not as strange as those above, but I got a kid who must have mental issues. Every, and I mean EVERY time I write on the board, I turn around and he is sitting in a different seat. Kid just looks weird and has no friends. Just teach him once a week, but he is a freak. Pretty stealth, though.

[samd]

Kebin. He would start off by scribbling on the back of his pencil case until it was heavily coated in graphite. Then he'd get his eraser and erase it all. After that he'd take all the dark grey bits that came off his eraser, place them on the pencil case, and use his pencil as a rolling-pin to mash them all together. Rinse and repeat and half an hour later he'd have a big ball of dirty eraser rubbings. I gave up trying to stop it.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[aloysha]

A few of these made me laugh.

The intense fixation with their mechanical pencils is quite odd.
Too many of my students will fill, empty, take apart and put
together their pencils over and over again ad nauseum.

I have a few girl students that just gaze into their mirror or
fix their poorly done makeup the entire class.

[Looking East]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Underwaterbob]

[njp6]

This kid was not so strange, just interesting. He was way into WWE wrestling. He would flex and yell out in class, "MY IS VERY ANGRY!" He renamed all the kids in the class after pro wrestlers and I was dubbed Undertaker teacher. He was also 8 years old. It was cute at that age. Any older and it would have been an annoyance.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[cruisemonkey]

I had one mentally-challenged boy who would follow me around any chance he got. He rarely spoke and would just stare at me with a big grin. He would spend hours standing at the staff room door... just staring at me (if allowed). He would follow me in the halls, he would follow me outside, he would follow me anywhere... and stare!

[mnhnhyouh]

[Faunaki]

There's a girl "hairball" who has problems of some sort. She always sits alone, pulling her hair out and piling it onto her desk. Every now and again she'll take a break from pulling to tidy the pile of hair and arrange it compulsively. Then back to hair pulling.

If I'm feeling at all sickish, I don't go near her desk because the site of the hair pile makes me feel like vomiting.

The thing is I would feel sorry for her but she fights with anyone sitting within a one desk range. She loves fighting and hair piling.