The craziest teaching day you have ever had

Work Teaching English in Taiwan
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Today took the WHOLE damm cake…

I have to teach P.E. to 1st and 2nd graders. And since it had rained, I decided to take the kids up to the library to have P.E. Well, the library is great for the boys because they like to slip and slide across the waxed floor. Once they settled down we got into our game.
Well the bell rings, and I tell the kids ‘ok time to go’ and they all charge straight for the door, which by the way is a glass door :astonished: . Im looking around making sure all the kids are leaving when I hear “POW” and look up and see glass shattered all over the place. Some boy had (im guessing here) slid or just plain ran thru the glass door. :astonished: :noway: So, i run out,look around for blood and who’s injured and see this kid leaning up against the wall,looking dazed and grinning. No blood, until lift up his pant leg and there’s an inch deep gash on his knee-cut right to the muscle. Poor kid really got then this was serious. :frowning:
Kid is alright. They stitched him up and sent him back to school. The principle tells me not to worry about it all because she’s not suprised he would do something like this since he’s ‘one of the bad’ kids at the school.

Man, I never knew ESL would involve this level of ‘adventure’ :noway:

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Had a kid somehow work his fat little head between the slats of the picket like gate on the balcony of a class room once. His head was too fat by half. How he got it in there, no one knows.

We had to wait while a-yi ran down to the shops to fetch a keyhole saw. What a site.

We couldn’t stop laughing about that one for days. Gawd, I miss teaching kids.

NOT!!!

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Had a kid balancing on the back legs of their chair, swinging back and forth, their head getting closer and closer to the brick wall. After a direct warning “Don’t do that you could get hurt” the kid ups the speed and wacks their head back into the wall “THUD”, screams then tries to lean forward but can’t because they have a 1 cm spike of busted off metal jammed into their skull and can’t move!! After the ambulance, principal, hysteria etc. dies down I couldn’t resist telling the class “I told you so!!!”

I was also with a school group at a play when the actor playing Hamlet stopped and said “I’m not going on till the f@#kwit with the laser pointer stops shining it in my eyes” Yes, the kid from my class. I drag him out and we start to walk back to school. The kid runs ahead into a busy street, stands in the middle of the road puts his hand up like a cop and stops a car, I cringe as I meet the eyes of the driver - a friend. The kid got a suspension! I wanted to kill. :noway: