Rockin' the Double Dream Hands

To add a bit of extra spice to our H.M.S. Spirit Week (a.k.a. dress up in crazy outfits and act like fools week) we had a school dance. Awesome. For the most part, all went well- aside from the part where the D.J. accidentally unplugged all of his equipment… twice, but I still can’t wrap my head around the dance moves these kids are pulling out. It’s enough to make you go blind. Today’s most popular move, “stand in a blob of 4-10 people, and do music-pulsing knee bends while you rub your butt on one another.”

Because our students lack common sense when it comes to what is appropriate at a school dance, I have decided to teach them the following acceptable routine:

Words that start with O

I spent most of last week at a professional development conference in Atlanta- hence the absence of recent postings- but I'm sad to say that, upon my return, it didn’t take long to get back into the swing of middle school life... especially when I overhear conversations in the hallway like this:

Administrator: “So, do you think you can do that?”

Student: “No.”

Administrator: “No? You don’t think you can do that?”

Student: “No.”

Administrator: “Really? You can't? You can't make sure that in your science class you say ‘organism’ instead of ‘orgasm’?”

Student: “Hee hee hee. No.”

Ah, it’s good to be back.