Instruct the students to remove all backpacks and bags from their laps and desks. Too much temptation to eat in class or use cell phones.Easy enough.
I did my usual intro, explained what they were doing, and I passed out their questions. (They had a list of questions to answer that went along with what they were watching.) That's when I caught the boy with a Hot Cheeto in his hand.
"Put away the food."
The boy: "But she lets us eat in class."
Oh really? Seems to me that note in the lesson plan says otherwise. I said as much to the student.
Busted.
He put away the food without further incident. Freshmen, sigh.
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chancer..nope, never allowed to eat in class.
ReplyDeleteNo, don't remember eating in class. I lived for lunch...was always hungry, as I recall. Shells–Tales–Sails
ReplyDeleteOf course. You were growing...
DeleteBusted, I guess. What nerve! We never were allowed to eat in class.
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't think my teachers cared if I ate in class. Then again, I was a 4.0, honors and AP student, so they may have been more lenient. And it's a good thing too. I brown bagged it and snacked on my lunch all day. Otherwise I wouldn't have made it through.
ReplyDeleteI get that cell phones are a distraction, but I never understood the big deal about food in class. Sometimes people get hungry!
ReplyDeleteNever was allowed to eat in class but I understand young people getting hungry!
ReplyDeleteTrue. That's why they get a snack period between periods 2 & 3.
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ReplyDeleteI live in Japan, and I used to teach at a high school. We NEVER allow students to eat anything in class. Eating in class would be regarded as an insult to the teacher.
Insult to the teacher... Yeah, if I told the kids here that, they would be more likely to eat in class. Sigh.
DeleteIt must be tough to be a substitute teacher. One time in social studies class during sophomore year we had a substitute. He passed around a paper for us to sign for attendance. One fellow signed his name as Jacques Le Strappe.
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On the bright side, most of those pranks have been done so many times that I expect them.
DeleteHa. we couldn't chew GUM in class. But that was forty years ago when us girls had to wear dresses. No jeans.
ReplyDeleteSO busted.
ReplyDeleteNo, we couldn't eat in class, not until law school, when it might not have been expressly allowed but you could sit way in back. I'm not sure, though, why it's a rule, unless it's just that it would prove far too distracting, which I suppose is true.
The main reason it's an issue is the mess. Kids tend to leave their wrappers everywhere, making the room look like a tornado hit it after they leave. And the mess attracts ants (and cockroaches).
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