"Babysitting"

yeah, so this was my first week ever to be a sub in the Auburn city school system...well, in any school system for that matter. On Tuesday I was at Dean Road Elementary school. They were having teacher technology training day, so I was rotated around between 3 classes: 2nd grade, 1st grade and then 5th grade. The 2nd graders were the most well behaved (except for the 1st graders when their teacher finally came back in the room and then they were completely silent...it was amazing!). However, during class, one of the 2nd graders came up to me and said, "Miss West, Randy is saying stuff about my mamma." I about lost it right there. Keep composure, keep composure. So I then had to make an announcement I didn't really ever expect to make in a classroom full of 7 year olds: "Ok, there will be no talking bad about anyone else's mother while we're in here."

Ironically enough, today in one of my 7th grade classes, one of the students made some sort of "yo mamma" joke, so I again had to say, "hey! I don't want to hear anything about anyone else's mom." They thought it was funny and we all got a good laugh out of it. But it just goes to show you that 7th graders are no more mature than 2nd graders!

Anyway, that was part of my random week for you. Good thing the kids didn't talk about poo, haha. Although in the 5th grade class there were some boys in the back of the room who kept making fart noises on their arms right before school let out for the day. Ah, boys will be boys.