If you have ever seen the classic movie A Christmas Story you'll remember the part where Ralphy finds out that he got a C+ on his theme, "What I want for Christmas." Tonight I got roped into helping a poor math teacher grade his kids' sorry fraction homework. Instead of marking off the papers yelling, "Margins, margins, margins!" I found myself saying, "Reduce, reduce, reduce."
Special thanks to Marc Anthony, Michael Buble, Moby, and Coldplay for getting me through that insane task of grading middle school papers. There is a reason I am a P.E. teacher and not a classroom teacher. We grade once a year, not once a day.
4 comments:
Looks fun? No really, its great that you can help out that way. I don't know how teachers do it!
Wow - that brings back memories of grading papers! I guess that for now that is at least one thing I don't have to do as a mom. I am sure even that will change!!
It also reminded me of countless hours of stuffing envelopes for Nick's research surveys.
Boy - if they only paid us for the fun stuff we do for our hubbies!!
Lisa
You Rock, Julienne! Richard is lucky to have you to help. :)
I can already tell that Richard is a better math teacher than I was. I never graded homework - just tests. I could never keep up! Tests were hard enough! You're quite a trooper to help out with that stuff!
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