This week I am giving many resumes to schools to be a relief / substitute teacher. I don’t exactly know what the job involves, but I assume there is a significant shouting component. Should be fun.

Anyway, this is from a blog called rateyourstudents (and no, I’m not listed on ratemyteachers):

Sarcastic Sammy from Silver Lake On Lies.

I lie.

Let me be specific - I lie to students.

Last term I told students I was not going to hand back assignments as two had plagiarized. They were going to have the opportunity to come to my office, in private, and give me a written explanation of what they did with a signed guarantee this would not happen again.

The truth was I had spent the weekend with a box of wine and a case of pepperoni sticks that were past the expiration date. I hadn’t looked at any student work.

Three students gave me a written confession.

I hope that some day I will be as awesome as this guy.