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[alicat_blue]

I teach a class of kindies, five year-olds, but where I come from they are actually four-year olds. Anyways, today as I was teaching, one of my little guys held up his hand, pinky outstretched with a somewhat apologetic look on his face. I couldn't quite discern what was on his pinky so I bent for a closer look thinking it was a bit of eraser stuck to his finger. Woe was me because instead of a bit of eraser, turned out it was a good chunk of what was in his nose. I could barely get it into a tissue before I had to run to the bathroom and give my lunch the ole heave ho. At least he didn't wipe it under the table, I suppose.
Anyone else care to share some gruesome stories?

[Freezer Burn]

I have an 8 year old in a clas full of 13-14 years olds and she is CONSTANTLY picking her nose but also eating it.
I dont want to say anything because she's fragile and also in a class where she is already ostrisized because she is so young.
Ive smacked her and away from her mouth in a jovial manner but then she nearly started sniffling, I hate that crap, and its a little trip to the hallway if someone starts crying in my class.

I saw a full on fist fight in the back of my class in china, by the time i got through the 45 kids all standind around them, there were blood noses and ripped shits and kids all laughing a pointing.

KIDS SUCK

[Emma Goldman]

I have seen nothing worse than persistent runny noses. It freaked me out at first, but now I just tell the student that they may go to the bathroom if they need to. Sometimes they say they don't need to.

This is university students.

[winnie]

[casey's moon]

This isn't really that gross, but did shock me a bit.... one of my kindy (Korean age 5) kids attempted to scratch his arse from the front while I was leading them in a song, so during his cute little dance he managed to give me a full frontal . I almost made him cry with my reaction which was . Not that I'm shocked by the bits and pieces of kindy kids -- I just didn't expect to see them at that particular moment!

[pauline]

The grossest things. Wow.

When I was at a hogwon, one the 3-4 year old kids peed in her pants often. I'd ask her if she needed to go to the toilet, but she'd shake her head, and I would look at her chair to find it flooded.

What irked me, however, was that we had a jerk of an academic cordinator (a Canadian, not a Korean) who bawled at me for leaving the classroom during break time, to which I responded, "what do you do when a kid pisses?"

3-4 year old kids threw up what looked like turd a couple of times.

I remember one seven year old looked like she'd been tortured with steam when she arrived, she was saturated with sweat. Minutes later she gushed up a gallon, but fortunately I got the rubbish bin under her in time so none splattered anywhere. I felt sorry for the poor kid.

When kids are sick, they should stay home.

[deessell]

Keeping with the nose picking.....I was teaching Business English in Vietnam to some high ranking officials from the Ministry of Trade. It was the first day of class and I was teaching introductions and we were practising firm handshaking etc. I was moving around the class and the next student was busy mining for gold, as I moved towards him he removed the offending finger(it was on his nose picking hand) and quickly moved into the handshaking position. Needless to say I did not shake his hand. I also felt it was important to say that his actions were not acceptable.

Ten minutes later I look at him and he has a sheet of A4 in front of his face...at it again.

Nose picking is a big pastime in Vietnam...it even happens at the bank, you walk up to the teller and she is going for it. To be honest though, I prefer it to hoicking up lung butter. It must be the pollution.

[denverdeath]

The nose picking is gross. So's the coughing in others' faces. "I'm sick," the student says. "Oh, that's too bad. I hope you're feeling better soon," I say as I move swiftly away from the offender.

The worst, or most embarassing, situation happened with a uni student though. It was only somewhat gross; it was more disturbing than gross. There was a girl in one of my first-year English classes who seemed to get all excited whenever I came near her. From what I can recall, she was somewhat overweight. This one day, I think I came too close. She got all excited and tried to stand up. However, her chair stuck to her ass and she tripped and fell to the floor. She was squirming around on the damned floor with the chair still stuck to her ass for what seemed like an eternity. Of course, all of the students were in stitches. Meanwhile, I was trying to help the poor girl up while feeling both sorry for her and trying not to chuckle a bit myself. Anyway, she was a trooper and didn't let it phase her one bit.

[crazylemongirl]

I was teaching one day and I looked down to see one of the boys with his hands down his pants

[pauline]

[joe_doufu]

You guys are teaching kindergarten and the worst thing you've seen is a little snot and nudity? And that made you throw up? I hope you never have a poopy disaster when the Korean teacher is out running an errand. Until you've wiped your students asses, you don't even know what they're capable of.

[Demonicat]

meh, not so gross- but mind boggiling. Cuts. I get alot of them, be it to having a psychotic kitten, riding a motorcycle, being frquently engaged in sport, or just being clumsy- I get alot of open wounds.
My problem is that kindies love to try to touch the wounds. I'm stcuk watching a kid scratch his ass then reach for my scratches. I used to think it was a kid thing, so I took it in good humour with just a No, thats not nice. don't do that", until I caught the director doing it a few times. Keep your hands off of my body!

[Tiny_Tibbo]

One day while i was grabbing some tissue to stop a snot river, little Molly decided she couldn't wait and blew it all out ......seeing the dripping all the way down to the table...the other five kids decided to blow out all of their snot reserves too... ...by the way...has anyone seen the grey boogers??

[casey's moon]

[Ekuboko]

At my last middle school (co-ed) a girl in the most awful 2nd grade class dropped the most rotten of farts, but kept quiet about it until the stench wafted to the front of the room and I asked who the culprit was. She was so pleased with herself that she cackled loudly with her friends for about 5 minutes, while her classmates (including some pretty horrid boys) just kept quiet and fanned their noses.

A couple of months later she did it AGAIN - this time the smell was so bad we had to open the windows - in the middle of frosty winter too!

(She was also the same girl who told very loudly me via friends [she refused to try and ask in English] she desperately needed to go to the loo for a ddong, and then demanded that I give her toilet paper! I refused, so she didn't go.