Previous Volumes of Things Teenagers Say
Over Christmas Break, I let the hair stylist talk me into highlights. This was the first time I'd ever done anything like that to my hair. The change was pretty drastic, but I love it! On the first day back from break, it seemed like every single student had something to say about my hair.
If I was bald, I would be jealous of your hair.
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Freshman Boy (to me): You got streaks in your hair!
Freshman Girl: They're called highlights.
Freshman Boy: I may not know what they are called, but at least I noticed them.
Another Freshman Boy: I noticed them too, but I wasn't going to say anything about them.
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Student 1: I got my hair cut over break, too.
Student 2: It's not your time to shine. It's Ms. Hagan's time to shine.
Student 1: It's ALWAYS Ms. Hagan's time to shine!
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Me: It's crunch time.
Student 1: What?
Me: It's crunch time.
Student 1: Don't you mean it's cram time? I've never heard of crunch time. I think it's called cram time.
Me: No, its crunch time.
Student 2: That sounds like a brand of cereal. Are you hungry, Ms. Hagan?
Student 3: No, wait. Isn't that a candy bar? Are you sure you aren't hungry?
Me: You've seriously never heard of crunch time?!? Crunch time means we're running out of time, and we need to get serious.
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Student 1: Don't you mean it's cram time? I've never heard of crunch time. I think it's called cram time.
Me: No, its crunch time.
Student 2: That sounds like a brand of cereal. Are you hungry, Ms. Hagan?
Student 3: No, wait. Isn't that a candy bar? Are you sure you aren't hungry?
Me: You've seriously never heard of crunch time?!? Crunch time means we're running out of time, and we need to get serious.
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Student: What do you call people that don't celebrate Christmas?
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Apparently, not all of my students enjoyed our last Algebra 2 unit on logarithms.
Apparently, not all of my students enjoyed our last Algebra 2 unit on logarithms.
I wish we had beavers that could eat all our logs.
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I'm just going to take one bite of this. I want to see what it tastes like.
What was this student wanting to taste? A piece of pizza that had been sitting in their locker since lunch the previous day. Ewww...
What was this student wanting to taste? A piece of pizza that had been sitting in their locker since lunch the previous day. Ewww...
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While solving a multiple choice bellwork question:
Student: Did you meet a guy whose name starts with a D?
Me: No... Why?
Student: Well, D has been the answer to our bellwork problems a lot lately. I thought you might have been picking it because you met a guy whose name starts with D.
Me: No...
Student: Oh, is your boyfriend 63, then? (The answer to D was 63)
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Student: Did you meet a guy whose name starts with a D?
Me: No... Why?
Student: Well, D has been the answer to our bellwork problems a lot lately. I thought you might have been picking it because you met a guy whose name starts with D.
Me: No...
Student: Oh, is your boyfriend 63, then? (The answer to D was 63)
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We don't want to make Ms. Hagan puke. She's an awesome teacher.
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One of my students shared this as his good thing on a Monday:
Student: I got a side by side this weekend.
One of my students shared this as his good thing on a Monday:
Student: I got a side by side this weekend.
Me: You sound really excited about a refrigerator.
Student: It's not a refrigerator.
Me: Oh...
Student: It's not a refrigerator.
Me: Oh...
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I also had to make a new rule that I never envisioned myself making.
Me: No lassoing things!
I also had to make a new rule that I never envisioned myself making.
Me: No lassoing things!