OK, gonna try and keep this up *girds loins*

[elderberrywine]

So Day 2, it's still honeymoon stage. The students are wary, trying to figure this crazy old white lady out.

One student decides to push it - asking to go to the bathroom and not returning for half an hour. This is 4th period, when half the school is at lunch, so I know he's been chillaxin' with his friends. We have a quiet brief side conversation where I inform him that that won't fly and he is now marked as 30+ (tardy for more than 30 min). He whines that it wasn't that long and he really had to go, wherein I inform him yes it was, and if he has that kind of issue, he best be getting a doctor's excuse. And most important, everyone around him is giving him the side-eye, and no-one is buying in.

So important to nip this shit in the bud, I have found. And so that's the life of a high school teacher, in brief. :D

Comments

[illuminating_dragon]

30 minutes is a long bathroom break, even for someone with, erm, problems down below. *snickers* He'll need to be more creative.

[elderberrywine]

Seriously.

Me "It took you a half an hour?"

Dumb kid "I had the runs!"

Me "Well then it should have gone pretty fast, seems to me."

Kids around him *snicker*

[illuminating_dragon]

I hope he's better at math than he is at excuses.

[elderberrywine]

Well, the rebellion fortunately appears to be short-lived. He's behaving himself now.

But way to get me to know your name, dude. Got my eye on you.

[lenine]

I look forward to future reports!

[elderberrywine]

Yeah, #HighSchoolLife.

Gotta love it. :)

[xylohypha]

Yeah, he's probably a little young for prostate problems, and if it's obstipation that is his problem, he needs to eat more fiber and drink more water. (He's lucky he doesn't have a teacher who would point out either of those things in a voice loud enough to be heard by his classmates.)

If kids are the hope of the future, teachers are the hope of that hope.

[elderberrywine]

Oh, but I definitely am that teacher. It might have been quiet, but it carried to all the tables around his.

But, as usual, the kid sort of laughs when you call them on it. Yeah, you got me.