I saw a list on a blog the other day and thought it was very funny, so I came up with a list of a few of the students that I see in my classes at Armstrong. Most of these are found in my education classes. Feel free to add one of your characters to the list.
1. The student who uses the wrong word, or uses unnecessary words, because they are trying to sound smart.
There is a lady in one of my classes who loves to speak articulately and enunciate everything perfectly. She ends up sounding like a minister. Some of her favorite words are "Holistic"and (my personal favorite), "Dramastically." Last night she sounded the battle cry for teachers everywhere to "Give of yourselves" (pause here) "that is the best we can do for our children." One semester, a guy was so out of control, that we had to create a banned word list. If I recall correctly, "Juxtaposition" was at the top of the list.
2. The student who is connected in some way to every situation:
One of the women in my class has a little bit of everybody in her family. "I have been accused of being Jamaican," "I have been around a lot of Muslims,"" I like to eat bean Pies," "My Auntie is an Indian," "I had a great-uncle who was from Turkey," "Jehovah Witnesses always knock at my door." You get the picture. Her initial revelations always end up in a 15 speech that rambles on about things that no one cares about.
3. The student who is so PC that she qualifies everything she says:
There is a girl we call "Lily White" in one of my classes. She is so conscious of everything she says that she has to say two sentences for every one sentence she says. Example, "I never knew that black children had such problems, you know what I mean when I say black, I don't mean black children."
4. The student that "helps out" the teacher by bringing in articles or news stories that she thought we would find "interesting."
Many times these articles are of no interest to me at all. They end up be more paper that I have to toss out of my already too cluttered book bag. I have to confess though; sometimes I am this student. But I do not bring these articles to the whole class, just to the teacher and a select few who I know will be interested in it.
4 comments:
I am number 4. I just did that yesterday. I feel like I've been caught.
Its ok. I am number 4 as well, but I am sure that the articles we bring in are interesting to all.
Don't forget the Perm Fag. This person has curly or gay hair and thinks he (for it is always a boy) knows everything and is intellectually leagues above everyone else.
Also, there is the Ghetto Eater. This person will bring buffalo wings, a bottle of peanut butter, or a whole can of pringles. She always has something to eat every class. It is always amusing to see what she will decide to eat in class that day.
I think that I am number 2 because I have a story for everything.
You forgot the girl that has no social graces. We actually had her in class this spring. She talks at inappropriate times, only contributes with inappropriate comments, and makes a fool out of herself by drawing portraits on the blackboard or singing a song under recessed lighting. I have her in two of my classes this semester (back to back). Somebody pray for me.
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