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[margaret]

Arthur,
You look very nice--I bet the kids love you, especially if you do things in class like kissing toy pigs!
Margaret

[McNasty]

I had a student give my a note written in Korean. I put it in my pocket and had forgotten it. At some point I took it out and put it on my desk at home. My wife stumbled upon it and got really upset.

I asked her what was wrong and she told me that she read one of my students notes.

The student wrote: Your husband cheated on you.

The nerve of that little punk. Since then I toss all notes in the garbage.
Unbelievable! I can handle anything the kids throw my way but attacking my wife like that is way over the line.

It wouldn't have surprised me nearly as much if it was a boy but it wasn't.

[Cogito]

"Father, father! You're my father!" embracing me from behind. The boy is twelve years old (and serious) and this happens everytime he sees me

[Lizara]

[Dawn]

Let's Go 6 drill:

Q: "If you could be anything, what would you be?"
Student: "I would be a killer."

Q: "If you could do anything, what would you do?"
Student: "I would kill people."

And this from a nice, well-behaved and seemingly well-adjusted elementary school student with a stable home life ...

[mog]

"I know nothing."

No, it's "I don't know."

[marista99]

I know these are pretty common things here but they bothered me a little:

From an 11 year old girl when asked to read the part of a conversation in the book in which she would have to say "I'm from Japan"--"No. Japanese is bad people."

And an 8-year-old boy when we were talking about things that make us happy or sad: "I feel sad when Mommy hit me."

[batman]

From a 12 year-old girl.
"Teacher, I like you."
"Teacher, I really like you."
"Teacher, I'm not wearing panties. Wanna see?"

Mind you this experience was not quite as bad as the 11 year-old boy who would start to play with himself in class everytime he saw me.

[peppermint]

I waws using finger puppets today in class, cause ot technical difficulties that prevented me from using the regular curriculum. Anyway, I did the dialog with two people characters and a bear ( It was what I had on hand)

I introduced the two people puppets as beign from the book and then the kids asked if the bear was Thomas. (He's the token black kid in the book)

[shortskirt_longjacket]

one of my kindergarteners who speaks really good english said one day, "daddy said he was gonna kill mommy." i questioned her about it, thinking maybe i'd misheard her, but she insisted that daddy said he was gonna kill mommy.

this one happened in my co-worker's kindergarten class: she was reading a book about different people around the world being the same on the inside even though they look different on the outside. she was explaining to the kids that if your color of skin doesn't make you better or worse than anyone else. one kid who is very smart said, "but teacher, white skin makes people a little bit better, right?"

[Ilsanman]

Mine was:

'Korea is bigger than Canada'

Scary because he seriously thought he was correct. He was about 12 or 13, btw.

[JongnoGuru]

"Hello."

I'm not a teacher, and the student wasn't in a classroom when he said that, but in a shop near my house. Still, it was highly disturbing, as you can all well imagine. Immediately dashed across the street and began knocking back the oh-baek CCs... Friends had to come round and take turns sitting with me until I recovered.

The Guru

[sparkx]

[Grotto]

Hmmm most disturbing thing a kid could say to me would be:






























































gord is my dad

Oh I am going to be so sick how do I come up with such sick stuff. Even the thought of this makes me physically ill. I would probably be torn for feeling deep sympathy for the child and fighting the need to drown it in the nearest water source.