My favourite moments in teaching...

This is a true story, honestly!

I taught Junior high (grade 7-9) for a number of years in Cowtown. One particular year I was teaching grade 8s - by far the most challenging grade. In fact, I swear I did not have a grey hair on my head until I began teaching them.

One day, as I was addressing the class a student kept talking to the student beside him. I ignored it at first, but it soon got to a point where I could no longer let it go. I told the student, "Please be quiet." In return, I got the following: "Why don't you lick my left nut!" Yes folks from a grade 8 student! Now I had to bite my tongue from asking, "Why the left one? What's wrong with the one on the right?"