English class

Drew Ott

Drew Ott

Wish I were banned.
I just made my high school English class a lot harder for myself.

My English teacher shares her classroom with a health education teacher for one class period of the day -- the class before mine. The health class spends one or two weeks out of the year dedicated to sex education. Today in English, as my teacher was going over how to write a good essay, I noticed something that had not been erased from the health class before us. I suppose they had made some sort of pros and cons list on the board, and only erased the cons when they were finished. Behind my teacher, written large on the board, was this... "Sex: Feels good, burns calories". I found this mildly humorous to be written large on the board of a high school classroom, so once class was over I went to take a picture of it (been carrying my D90 with me everywhere). My teacher saw the camera right after I took the picture and approached me.

"Hey Drew, pretty cool camera you have there."

"Oh, yeah... thanks."

"What were you taking a picture of?"

"Oh, uh, I don't really know. Well, I mean I don't think I want to say. It was nothing."

"Oh c'mon, what was it?"

"Well... that thing written on the board over there..." I pointed to the spot on the board.

"I didn't write that."

"Oh yeah, I know. I just thought it would be kind of funny to not know the context."

"That's not funny."

I could feel my face get a little hot (my face gets dark red with the slightest bit of embarrassment).

"Yeah... I don't know, I guess thought it was sort of ironic or something... I don't know."

"It really is not funny."

"I know."

"It's from the health class."

"I know, sorry."

She shook her head in disappointment as I quickly exited.

Usually something like this wouldn't phase me, but she unfortunately has complete control over my grades for the next 9 months, and everything we do in English is completely subjective. Should be an interesting year. :)

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Wow, bummer Drew. I totally thought this story was going another direction:

DREW: I was taking pictures of those words over there.

TEACHER: Do those words...excite you, Drew?

Cue Alex Van Halen on drums.
 
Drew Ott said:
It was posted but now the picture has been removed.
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Nope, it's still there. What's with all these people talking about sexual stuff being removed when I can still see it lately?

Great story, Drew. I notice you have chalk boards in your rooms. That's interesting. We are all white boards now, even in small town California.

My English teacher would have been making jokes the entire class period if something like that had been left on the board. :)
 
The picture has mysteriously returned.

There are some rooms with white boards. Teachers rarely use them anyway. Our teachers are primarily using digital projectors, though the large majority can't operate them correctly.
 
ConspiracyPenguin said:
Great story, Drew. I notice you have chalk boards in your rooms. That's interesting. We are all white boards now, even in small town California.
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we had both when i taught. at the front of the class was a whiteboard and there was a chalkboard on the side wall.
 
ugafan said:
we had both when i taught. at the front of the class was a whiteboard and there was a chalkboard on the side wall.
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Some teachers do that for kicks, but for most it's just the white boards. We, too, however (like Drew) use mostly digital stuff now. I bite my tongue when the teacher can't figure something simple out. As much as I would like to just toss out the solution, I would much rather talk to my friend sitting next to me or stare at the hot chick across the room. :D
 
today in my english class we talked about Athens and its prostitutes and their version of contraceptives! I wouldn't be surprised to walk into my english class tomorrow and see something like that. lol

ConspiracyPenguin said:
or stare at the hot chick across the room. :D
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lucky you, i seem to not have ANY cute girls in my class, they are all over school, but none in my class, it just doesnt make sense!:(
 
Sorry about the picture appearing and disappearing. IsaraPIX's webhost is transferring the entire site to a new server so there might be some down time.

Oh, and the teacher might be disappointed but all of us at DVXuser would have been more disappointed if you didn't take the picture.

:thumbsup:
 
ConspiracyPenguin said:
Ironic that you should say that today because I did.

We should discuss this via PM right now instead of me going to bed like I probably should because I will be tired at 6:30 in the morning if I don't. :)
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let's hope it turns out better than last time you tried to make a move.

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