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Not Even Special Needs

December 4, 2009 By Jenny Ryan 4 Comments

The latest stories from my teacher friends.

1. On the board are written a list of 4 items with prices. The student is asked, if you buy 2 of this item andn 1 of this item, and you have $75.00, do you have enough money?

Teacher: “Do you have enough money?”

Student: “Yes.”

Teacher: “Then you need to write that answer in the box.”

Student: In the box, writes “$55.27.”

Teacher: “No. The question is, ‘Do you have enough money?’ ”

Student: “Yes.”

Teacher: “Then you need to write that answer in the box.”

Student: In the box, writes “Do you have enough money?”

Teacher: “No. The question is, ‘Do you have enough money?’ ”

Student: “Yes.”

Teacher: “Then you need to write that answer in the box.”

Student: Does not understand what to do.

Teacher: “It is a yes/no question!”

Student: Blank stare…

2. Teacher asks, “If there are 93 students on Bus 7, and 112 students on Bus 12, then how many students are there altogether?”

Student: Multiplies 93 x 112.

Student: Does not actually know how to multiply, so somehow comes up with the answer of 404.

Teacher: Explains how if you multiplied those two numbers together, the answer would be 10, 416 students.

Teacher: “Have you ever seen a bus with 10,000 students?”

Student: “Well, yeah. My bus is like that.”

Teacher: “Well honey, let me tell you something. It may seem that way, but those buses only  hold 70.”

Filed Under: Teaching: It's Not For Wimps

Comments

  1. mono de queso says

    December 5, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    Sounds like these kids belong on a bus that holds a lot less than 70 kids.

  2. Cranky Fibro Girl says

    December 6, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Oh yeah.

  3. David says

    December 7, 2009 at 2:30 am

    These kids sound like typical 7th graders. (Seriously. I had whole classes of 7th graders like that: either dumber than a bag of hammers or proud of acting stupid.)

  4. Cranky Fibro Girl says

    December 7, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    I know. I am in awe of anyone who is able to teach middle school, because I could NOT do that.

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