Amanda Works in a Funny Place

Kids can be super funny . . . you know, "Kids Say the Darndest Things?" That is my life as a teacher. Since they have no filter (sort of like yours truly:) they sometimes say things that you don't really want to hear (are you pregnant is a popular one that lots of kids seem to ask lots of teachers!) Over the past few weeks, the kids have been in rare form.

Evidence #1: Quotes from my students:

"Miss Chow, your teeth look really clean today," (hidden meaning: they looked really dirty the last time I came up here!)
"Miss Chow, you look a lot prettier with your glasses on" (when I was wearing my contacts, thanks self-esteem killer!)

Evidence #2: Situations
One day, when the kids were eating hot dogs for lunch, one of the fifth grade girls had ketchup on her right sleeve (I'm talking up close to her shoulder, almost on her back). I'm thinking, "How did you manage to get ketchup THERE?" So I was puzzling over this when I saw her turn to her left to talk with her friend and lean her shoulder right into her hot dog! Ah, ha! Mystery solved!

One more cute story: One of the teachers has a class that likes to have what I call "parades" which means, one kid gets a tissue, five kids get a tissue; one kid asks to go to the bathroom, thirteen kids want to go too; one kid has a stomach ache and, poof, three other kids have one too. Well, they were on a tissue kick, and I said, "No more tissue parades." Then one of them couldn't stop sneezing and I told him it was ok for him to use a tissue. Well, a few minutes later, I sneezed too. One kid gets up, gets a tissue and brings it to me! So cute!