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“All in all we have a staff of about 65+ people counting teachers, administration, guidance, social workers and psycho-educators. I have counted 22 former students of mine who are now colleauges, student teachers, supply teachers, psycho-educators in training. And I love it - but there is only one rule, they're not allowed to imitate me at staff parties.

Any way, one is in training as a psycho-educator and when she saw me, she said, 'You!'

I, of course, said, 'What?' (as in, What have I done now?).

She told me that she had a Grade VII in her office who had been thrown out of class for bad language. She was explaining to him that you don't swear in school when I started hollering down the corridor at my Seniors, 'I CORRECTED YOUR GODDAMNED PAPERS AND YOUR GODDAMNED MARKS ARE IN SO STOP PISSING ME OFF!'

In the past my students have been known to threaten to go on strike if I don't get my correcting done.

Just wanted to share.”

“I am lucky that I never got caught drinking with my students.”

“It's okay to do that when you're in college.”

“LOL, so you kinda defeated her argument pretty effectively there huh. I bet the Grade VII got a big kick outta that!”

“And we wonder why they don't all grow up to be serial killers.

Maybe we should start a 'Truth about teachers' thread.”

“WOW, and I thought what I said was bad...

I'd tell ya what I told a 7th grade girl in one of my classes when she refused to do any of her work, but this ain't the place. Ask me about it the next time we hike, Gremlin.”

“You were really just describing the state of the papers and marks, not swearing.

Now, toss a few f-bombs and s-bombs in there, and yah, then maybe you were swearing...”

“Gremlin, you should write a book on how to get into the doghouse and how to stay there.”

“"It's okay to do that when you're in college."
bitpusher
03:09:13 PM
04/01/04

Except when your at the bar for their final exam.”

“Oh... Bar Exam.”

“Gremlin, I wish you'd been one of my HS teachers. You sound like a hoot.”

“There you go tilt!

However wrong subject.”

“And I thought Canadians were so polite.”

“Kinda demonstrates a lack of self control. You should have been suspended.”

“YEAH, WHAT NOWSLIMMER SAID, YOU #&%!$ING GODDAMN NO-CONTROL #&%!$ING #&%!$!!!”

“what do you teach?”

“I teach English as a second language in a small (900 students), rural high school next to the New York State border in southern Quebec, Canada, about 50 miles southwest of Montreal.

I coach boys and girls rugby and have coached volleyball.

I've been here for 27 years and loved every minute. I'm sort of a southern Canadian Redneck Yahoo.”

“LOL! Funny story, Gremlin.”

“I thought you people thought teaching English as a second language was racist and offensive to all the immigrants and we as Americans had to learn all the other languages????”

“Uuuuuuuh, all right, Big Sack, keep your hands in sight and move very slowly. And remember, if you look straight at me I'll figure you're aiming.”

“I was joking, eh?”

“Wake up Big Sack, you're dreamin'!”

“This from New Scientist:

"I've killed the internet"

"OH NO! I've killed the internet!" Feedback's musings on whether the internet is fated to collapse into an infinite spam-complaint loop (16 July) reminded a colleague of the time back in 1995 when he sat bolt upright in bed at 3 am in Jaipur, Rajasthan, uttering this cry of anguish and others that cannot be printed in a family magazine.

Before leaving for his holiday - he had gone to India precisely to avoid the internet, which did not arrive there in a big way until the following year - he had set up a "vacation message" apologising for not being able to answer messages, and telling correspondents when he would be back. Unfortunately, he did this on two different email accounts, one of which, he remembered that awful night, was set to forward messages to the other. Any such forwarded message would be answered with the apology, which the first machine, when it received it, would respond to with its own apology, leading all too quickly to an infinite number of apologies for not replying to the apology for not replying to...

And responding to those same musings about loops, Duncan East wrote to tell us of a more recent occasion when he set up a vacation message while still subscribed to a service that sends out periodic news alerts. This sternly tells people who reply to it that it is a robot and it is not reading their vacation message apologising to it for not reading its news alert. But this message in turn provokes another response from the vacation message, which in turn...and so on, forever, ad infinitum.

Fortunately, such robots are getting better all the time at detecting and ignoring recursive regrets, and the torrents of apologetic messages do stop when mailboxes fill up. But, like Feedback's colleague when he returned from India, it took East the whole of his first day back from holiday to delete the thousands of messages that had arrived.”

“Yup. Most modern email systems only send one "Out of office message" to each sender now.

What's even funnier is what used to happen with, I think, majordomo-based maillists. You'd set up your out-of-office...the list would send you the latest email...your out-of-office would reply to the majordomo account, which would then happily send everyone on the list (including you) your out-of-office message...repeat ad infinitum...”