My Students, On an Average Day

I love, love, love my job.  I love teaching high school history.  At the school I am at now (which I LOVE!), I mostly teach ninth and tenth graders, and the occasional eleventh grader.  My freshmen are always fun and tend to love my classes.  My sophomores tend to get lazy and a little apathetic (and I promise, that's not just at my school), but by the time they are eleventh graders, they turn into great kids again.


But being a high school teacher, I hear a lot of things everyday that most people probably would never hear in their lifetime.  So I thought I would compose a list of things that I hear on a daily basis, for your enjoyment.  Some are funny, some are crude, and some are just downright weird.  But if you want to know what is going on with the newest generation of high school students, this is your place!


"When I focus, I breath loud."

"What, are you a two cent whore?"

"Dylan, shut up."

"Oh, by the way, me and my hamsters?  We’re bros." 

"I'm gonna be a complete nerd and say that the light saber cut Darth in half."

"I hate you."

"The tribe has spoken."

"I plead the 5th."

"Dylan, I said shut up!"

"I think God gave me bad handwriting for a reason."  "Why?"  "One, God didn't want me to write.  Two, I'm supposed to be a doctor to write prescriptions."

"You are making me feel stupid. I'm getting out of here."

"What happened to the super Congress?"

"When anyone in my family gets married, we give them a lamp."

"DYLAN!  SHUT UP!"

::in a silly, high-pitched voice:: "The British are coming!  The British are coming!"

"My battery died."  "That's what she said."

"Actually, true story.  Gatlinburg is where 'Gatlin' came from."

"I have 57 kids.  What do you expect?"

"I'm going to walk over there very slowly."

"Helium is not flammable."


"Isaac, there is no good way to tell a girl her face looks like meatloaf."


"Did you take your medicine today?"

I will try to periodically update these "quotes."  One thing is for sure, there is never a dull moment with high schoolers!