Boo-boos

Classroom interactions are always unpredictable and amusing. Each meeting is never the same as the previous one. A teacher may plan the lesson quite well from the motivation until the enrichment activity but if a student suddenly comes up with a hilarious remark, it simply changes the course of the discussion.

I have often been caught off guard by the remarks of my witty and silly students. There was even a time I couldn't stop myself from laughing so hard that I just excused myself so as not to appear like I was losing my head. Let me share a few of these classroom boo-boos:
(students' names have been changed to protect their identities)

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It was the first day of classes. Students were asked to write their complete name on a sheet of paper. After retrieving all the papers, I noticed that one student missed his middle name.

SHARON: Jacob? You didn't write your middle name.
JACOB: Ma'am I don't have a middle name.
SHARON: Ohh..
(moving on..)

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SHARON (uttered in jest to an unruly student): You should have not enrolled here. A special school is better for you.
GEOFF: Ma'am if it's a special school, does that mean that the teacher is also special?


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SHARON: We will have a spelling exercise today. Bring out a 1/2 lengthwise.
JM: Ma'am is wrong spelling wrong?


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SHARON: Name the 8 parts of speech.
SHAIRA: noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction and injection!


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While writing an essay..

KRISTINE: Ma'am what is the English term for "uso?"
SHAIRA(overheard her classmate's question): Ano ka ba, e di BEAR!


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SHARON: What is HOMICIDE?
STUDENT: Ma'am that means someone was killed in his home.
(point taken)


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SHARON: If you could convince someone to run for president of the country, who would it be?
PATRICK: Ma'am, Zorro!


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The lesson for the day was a fable about the mouse Amos who set out to sea using a makeshift boat. He filled it with all his necessities such as cheese, telescope, compass, etc.

SHARON: If you were Amos, what will you bring?
ADAM: A woman.


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SHARON: What swimming strokes do you know?
AIRA: Ma'am backstroke.
DANICA: Ma'am breaststroke.
ARVIN: Butterfly Ma'am.
CARL: Freestyle Ma'am.
IAN: Ma'am dogstyle!


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This one did not take place inside the classroom.

A female student was reported to have suffered a temporary amnesia after hitting her head in a freak bicycle accident.

While being treated in the school clinic, she uttered, "Oh no, hindi ko maalala si Sir Avila, yung principal natin."

Ooops, yun na! Hindi nga maalala.