Me: Did you turn in your poem?
Student: (emphatically, pointing at me) Yes.
Me: When?
Student: …Maybe I still have it.
(He still had it.)
Me: Did you turn in your poem?
Student: (emphatically, pointing at me) Yes.
Me: When?
Student: …Maybe I still have it.
(He still had it.)
You know what’s awful? I have college students who do that exact same thing.
That is awful. Maybe I can condition it out of them… you know those shock collars they use on dogs?