I have a classroom full of students taking a test on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. What should I do to them for April Fools?
One year I made caramel apples and took them to work on April 1st. Only one was an onion. The guy who got the onion bit it and made a weird face. Then he bit it again and asked, “Why does this taste like garlic?”
Tape the underside of a computer mouse. A classic geek prank.
I do not observe this stupid exercise of futility.
Anybody who even attempts to try any stunt on me will see the floor up close and personal.
Honestly it may be a holiday for kids but not adults, even here on Fr a day like this i almost have to stop posting the whole day because of immature stupid prank threads.
powder..patch..ball FIRE!
Ping....
The "Do Now" was replaced with "April Fools!"
A few of my students had copied it into their notebooks before they realized what they'd copied, and two were upset when they had to erase it.
By the way, I'm a NYC public high school teacher, and it's usually an Algebra class ... when I'm not reteaching fractions or division or those things.
My co-teacher was not amused.
Letter I sent to my fellow teachers today....yes some fell for it.
Friends,
This seems to be the time of year for this type of announcements, but I have decided to take my 25 and out retirement, resign my position here at LHS, and pursue work in another field. My brother-in-law is an aircraft engineer with McDonnell Douglas in Wichita KS. Recently they have started a project with about $1.2 Billion of the government stimulus money to try to make private and maybe someday commercial air travel more “green”. He and some of his co-workers have formed a small company to work as private contractors on the project and he has offered me a research position in the company. The pay and the ability to double dip with my retirement makes it too good an offer to pass up.
By using a combination of solar and human biomechanical power to provide in flight electrical generation, the government feels that greenhouse emissions can be reduced by .06553% for the average twin engine private jet. One of the concerns driving the research is that so many of the leading environmentalists have to do much of their travel by private jet. Commercial air travel simply doesn’t provide the flexible schedule, on time reliability, privacy from the public, and amenities that someone like Al Gore or a celebrity Hollywood spokesperson needs. Sadly, these visionaries have been criticized by the small minded for flying to a college across the country or Rio for an environmental conference by private jet to lecture on the need for others to reduce their carbon footprint. By “greening” those private jets our company hopes to mute this charge of hypocrisy.
Naturally, I expressed some doubt about the usefulness of my education background in a such a high tech project, but my brother-in-law assured me that the current administration doesn’t place a high priority on competency as long as you are earnest in your efforts. I’m really excited about the project and can already see other applications in both limousines and private yachts.
Thanks for all the great years here at LHS and enjoy that early out today.