my goal is to have at least one short story everyday of teaching. today i have a few


-an 8th grade student told me her boyfriend just got out of prison
-another student told me they were good at killing mastodons
-i gave a student an oboe at the beginning of band and they came back a few minutes later saying that they couldn't oboe wouldn't fit together. i took a look at it and for the life of me i couldn't figure out why the upper and lower joints wouldn't go together. So I put it down and come back to it a few minutes later and realize the cap was still on the upper joint. yup, didn't tell my co-op about that one.