One of my biggest pet peeves as a teacher is having some kid come up and feed me an excuse as to why they don't have their homework finished. "I was busy last night." "We were painting our house." "I left it at school." My personal favorite is "You didn't give me any homework." Oh, okay. Well, if you say I didn't give you homework, I must not have given you homework.
Well, as a student, I never gave my teachers an excuse as to why I didn't have homework. What am I saying? I don't think I ever went to class empty-handed. I have my perfectionist tendencies to thank for that. And so, it brings me great distress to confess that for my class this evening, I ended up going to class empty-handed. But it wasn't my fault. Really. I typed my homework because I have an easier time keeping up with my train of thought if I type instead of write. And, okay. I'm an over-achiever. I admit it. Well, I usually save my file on my jump drive and e-mail it to myself at work so I can print it. All was going well until I realized that I had forgotten to save my file to my jump drive. When I realized it, the power was out. Seriously. We were without power for like 13 hours between yesterday and today. "No biggie," I thought. "I'll just retrieve my e-mail at work and print it." So off I went to work thinking that all was well in homework land. Alas, it was not to be. Due to unknown technological difficulties, the entire school district was without e-mail today. My homework is stranded on the information superhighway without an emergency contact.
Fortunately, my teacher was understanding and is granting an extension. Maybe this will teach me to be more understanding when my students come and tell me why they don't have their homework to turn in. Yeah, right!
Monday, September 24, 2007
The Computer Ate My Homework
Posted by Esther at 8:49 PM
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"My homework is stranded on the information superhighway without an emergency contact."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Hee hee. I'm laughing at Rachael's comment about your hilarious remark! Well, I think you'll be more understanding of your kids when they have three different back up plans that all go crazy! That's what really makes the difference. For example this might be a better excuse.
"Miss Barney, we were painting our house last night and my brother spilt the bucket all over my homework." (they then produce the crusted over homework papers) "I was going to call Shelly" (the girl who sits next to them)"but she said that she had already completed her homework and therefore couldn't copy it because it would be cheating. I would have had my mom borrow the paper and type out the questions so I wouldn't see the answers, but my mother had to leave for work so there was no way to get the assignment." Okay, so maybe that's a weak excuse too. I tried.
Sure...sure....Esther. The power was out and e-mail wasn't working. Another lame excuse I'll have to be sure my students don't use. *heehee* Just living up to my "punkishness".
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