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Barely survived this week.

Asherahan wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:What did the original teacher DO with these students????

So magically well behaved.

For once in my cover teaching I didn’t have to play my harder cards. I am very touched.

It’s a nice change from the typical, borderline revolutionary classrooms

... what did the original instructor do????

Whipped it out and silenced them into submission with a show of dominance?

Who knows

I was covered in ticks and mosquito bites today. Gross. Just found one on my side and one on my leg. Must have missed them when I shook the 5 others off at work. Bleh.

Infected Mushroom wrote:

Asherahan wrote:Whipped it out and silenced them into submission with a show of dominance?

Who knows

And so we shall never know.

Kannap wrote:Barely survived this week.

I feel exactly the same. Except my week isn't even over yet, so my survival is still in question.

I really should stop falling asleep watching youtube. I wake up and open my eyes to the blinding light of Heroes & Halfwits. But I still have like four hours till work starts.

Idzequitch wrote:

Kannap wrote:Barely survived this week.

I feel exactly the same. Except my week isn't even over yet, so my survival is still in question.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

I like squid and octopus. I'm not sure I've had thst exact combination.

Idzequitch wrote:

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

I like squid and octopus. I'm not sure I've had thst exact combination.

I am not saying you should eat them both at the same time.

Also that is how we cook our squid and octopus most of the time.
Fried Squid


Boiled octopus

Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.

Asherahan wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.

Kids love battle royale.

Asherahan wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:Do not

I repeat

do not EVER give crayons (instead of colored pencils) to children in a classroom

Just don’t

You’ll regret it

Optimistic IM walks in a center: “oh you do crafts with crayons here???? Crayons are cool!”

Head teacher: “yeah this way no one has to be hired to sharpen all the colored pencils after. Saves time and costs for everyone. Also, kids love crayons.”

The last part proved to be true (everything else is misleading or in fact not so much)

The crayons break from being rolled over the table... the kids can’t put them back into the container in right shape because the crayons are really thick, the container small, and many of them break into pieces during the crafts

Also, the difference between a simple but “good/well designed” craft activity and a bad one (where the teacher ends up doing tons of cutting and pasting in the chaotic mid point of the activity ANd the kids get bored) is a gulf

Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.

I don't want to incur any liability

Infected Mushroom wrote:

Asherahan wrote:Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.

I don't want to incur any liability

Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability

Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

and then dynamite the mountain to bury yourself so you can't blab.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability

Then make sure that none survive to tell the tale.

its against the rules to take the students out of the centre during the 1.5-2 hour lessons

Furthermore, the security is very extensive (there are CCTVs "for everyone's protection" everywhere) and a number of guards are at the only exits on high alert

If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

Most of the teaching centres run by my organization are very brightly coloured, Happy Land looking places inside malls

however, the one center I visited today (where they uniquely used the crayons) was strikingly different. It was surrounded by walls and there was a security gate with a code required. From the outside it looked like an actual prison.

The administrative staff was also located several flights of stairs above the teaching rooms (which is odd because kids would have to climb all those stairs too with their parents on a fairly regular basis)

The most notable incident is that while I was teaching one kid started a revolution by drawing all over the exercise books. I was trying to be friendly and encourage him to do his work (it was still relatively under control because he's the only rebelling and everyone else is still working). I was not sure I needed to escalate to the Threats phase so I stuck with calmly talking.

But then the Head Teacher just walked in from absolutely nowhere (did he look at CCTVs... WHAT????). He gave the kid a very firm scolding and then dragged him out of the classroom. The kid did not re-appear until 15 minute to the end of lesson and he was crying (that's a LONG LONG time).

I was really confused (I checked with the staff and apparently he was seated with the head teacher and the administrative staff for over an hour, they have WAY TOO MUCH TIME).

During the whole lesson little girls would ask: "Where's Howard?"

I would say: "I... I really don't know"

When the kid came back he was behind on the colouring activities. The rest of the class, all the little kids, surrounded him and helped him with his colouring so he could catch up (all on their own). They didn't want poor Howard to be left behind.

I told them there was no need to finish the exercise for this class because there would be more time to do crafts when the real teacher came back.

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.

Chan Island wrote:

Asherahan wrote:Anybody like eating fried squid or boiled octopus with olive oil and vinegar?

Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.

when I went to Osaka I tried the fried octopus balls

Takoyaki (たこ焼き or 蛸焼) is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, and green onion.

It was absolutely DELICIOUS

Infected Mushroom wrote:

Chan Island wrote:
Octopus is about the one only creature I can't get myself to eat. They are obviously very smart and I kind of feel bad eating them.

when I went to Osaka I tried the fried octopus balls

Takoyaki (たこ焼き or 蛸焼) is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus (tako), tempura scraps (tenkasu), pickled ginger, and green onion.

It was absolutely DELICIOUS

I know octopus is delicious, and I'm otherwise not a vegetarian by any means but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taaGhg-o678

Infected Mushroom wrote:If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

You're not wrong but if an entire class vanishes you'll have other stuff to worry about than your job.

Infected Mushroom wrote:

Asherahan wrote:Abandon them in the mountains and see which survive.

I don't want to incur any liability

Blame it on aliens. Or the government.

Esternial wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:If an entire class were to disappear under the watch of any single teacher, it would probably cost the job

You're not wrong but if an entire class vanishes you'll have other stuff to worry about than your job.

Hide in the playground tube maze until your wanted level goes back to zero. Easy peasy.

Pax Nerdvana wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:
I don't want to incur any liability

Blame it on aliens. Or the government.

Gay alien government froggies.

I’m going to start posting funny headlines I find every now and then
Like this

Owners of a Noah's Ark replica file a lawsuit over rain damage