First Year Teaching -- Did you really Just Say that?

Hello again, gentle readers. I apologize for the long silence. I have been experiencing the joys of being a first year teacher. Oh, what joys. For the most part the students are pretty good kids. It is a private school in a well-to-do suburb and very insulated. It has been interesting being the only real "Geek" on the campus. But it has definitely opened the door to some more wonderful Did You Really Just Say That.
(1) So I was talking to my students about living in NYC and how public transportation is the great equalizer. One of my freshman girls responded : "But Miss, aren't you afraid of being abducted by white slavers and sold overseas."


(2) Now I understand that teenage boys are teenage boys and when they congregate the level of conversational maturity will drop like a stone but I thought that this was worthy of being added to DYRJST:
"Miss, is it true that the president has a special room in the White House where he brings young virgins to be  sacrifices to his infernal lust."
"K, are you really asking me that?"
"Yes M'am?"
"No."
"But it was on the news, so it must be true."


And for our final entry for this week; it is now registration time and all the parents are coming up and asking why their darling child has not been recommended for an advanced section. The best was the following conversation I had with the parent of a Freshman:
"Miss, why are you not recommending my child for AP classes next year?"
"Well the only AP class your child can take as a sophomore is AP History, and I do not have your child for history. You will have to discuss that with their History teacher."
"I know all that. But why aren't you recommending my child for AP Foreign Language?"
"Because your child is only in my First Year Foreign Language class and is not ready for AP."
"Well they were recommended last year for AP, why are you holding them back?"

Until Next Week gentle readers