Curled up on the loveseat grading stacks of papers, I am greedy enough to wish for another day off just as I am coming down off of a three day weekend.
The cliche, "True life is stranger than fiction" came true for me today when a student of mine plagiarized. That in itself is not so strange - here's the strange part: he plagiarized MY WORK! Just when I was feeling I had the upper hand on stories of the weird - my math teacher friend called with news of his own. Turns out a student wrote in as an answer to one of his story problems that there are 76 adults living in the state of Wisconsin. Proves, one again, that we teachers are stamping out ignorance one incident at a time.
Snow flies outside my window, freeways west of here are being shut down, I am warm and cozy in the slippers my sister bought me, and enjoying a heat-filled home for which I am always grateful.
and then I notice a typo in my own work. Argh!
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