Monday, February 15, 2010

Kids say the darnedest things

Y'all know I love teaching, and I love my "kids." Well, most of them. The ones who actually show up and participate in class. The ones I get to know because they actually show up to class.

In a previous post, I told you about the Alaska transplant who said he came to Alabama for SEC football and southern belles. Well, he's come up with another quotable quote.

Today, I walked into class and several students were poring over a thick book reminiscent of a dreaded literature textbook. I mentioned it, and that opened the floodgate of commentary on the instructor of the nutrition class the textbook was for. The commentary was not complimentary. In fact, I should not have listened. But I couldn't help myself. Gossip is one of my failings. Big surprise.

The rantings ranged from how much they hated the class (for various reasons) to the fact that the instructor's not a professor and doesn't even teach on campus full-time.

Mr. Alaska pipes up and says, "Why should we have to pay full price for a half price instructor?"

And haven't we all had that feeling at one time or another?

Yep. More than once.

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