Thursday, October 13, 2005

Ratting

Today I ratted out some kids who were skipping their Russian class.

I felt kind of bad about this, but not overly so. After all, I AM a teacher, an authoritarian representative of the state, as Lee would say.

Anyway, when I was doing the ratting (which was easy since the Russian class convenes in my room while I’m madly assembling my American Lit lesson) I noticed a kid pulling out his phone to text-message the offenders.

I frowned at him, and he smiled impishly. “I’m telling them to run,” he said.

“Hmmm,” I replied. And it seemed like a sign of the times.

3 comments:

jdoc said...

Who are your new commenters?

Undomestic said...

Looks like you need to add a password protection for your commenters. I haven't gotten a spammer since I added mine.

LH said...

get rid of those pesky spammers.
the kid calling the other kids telling them to run is hilarious.
I'm so surprised anyone would want to skip russian. They should be rushin to russian, i'd say. Okay, i'm going to bed. clearly necessary.