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Normally, the Ontario Teachers' group is dull as shit, depressing, and/or rage-inducing, but I'm trying to take my mind off of furnaces and so I was perusing it.
Some teacher, in all earnestness, posted that he kept losing his red marking pen, i.e., the kids keep stealing it. Which is a thing. You need to nail down all your stationary supplies or they go missing, though tbh the supply teachers are far worse than the kids. Pens and pencils in classrooms are like cigarettes in prison. It's a thing.
After some equally earnest helpful advice, the thread immediately devolved into, let's just say, really bizarre advice, followed by protestations of everyone involved being Serious Teachers Who Do Serious Teaching, and increasingly strange ways in which teachers protect their writing utensils from light-fingered children.
I may have won the thread with the suggestion that he buy this and ensure that no one will steal it because they are too terrified.
...so how bad is it that a) I kind of want one, and b) was stupid enough to go to ThinkGeek and see what their pens look like?*
(I mean, I barely ever use pens anymore. I need a pencil for marking down attendance on the scan sheets, but all of my feedback is online, which has resulted in 99% less angrily crumpled assignments stuffed into desks and behind computers.)
ETA: It's now the morning after and the pen discussion is still going on and has descended into Dada pranksterism, with helpful advice involving Scottie attack dogs, sticky tack, and keeping a tampon in with your pens. Teachers, man.
WAH! Want! Don't need!
Some teacher, in all earnestness, posted that he kept losing his red marking pen, i.e., the kids keep stealing it. Which is a thing. You need to nail down all your stationary supplies or they go missing, though tbh the supply teachers are far worse than the kids. Pens and pencils in classrooms are like cigarettes in prison. It's a thing.
After some equally earnest helpful advice, the thread immediately devolved into, let's just say, really bizarre advice, followed by protestations of everyone involved being Serious Teachers Who Do Serious Teaching, and increasingly strange ways in which teachers protect their writing utensils from light-fingered children.
I may have won the thread with the suggestion that he buy this and ensure that no one will steal it because they are too terrified.
...so how bad is it that a) I kind of want one, and b) was stupid enough to go to ThinkGeek and see what their pens look like?*
(I mean, I barely ever use pens anymore. I need a pencil for marking down attendance on the scan sheets, but all of my feedback is online, which has resulted in 99% less angrily crumpled assignments stuffed into desks and behind computers.)
ETA: It's now the morning after and the pen discussion is still going on and has descended into Dada pranksterism, with helpful advice involving Scottie attack dogs, sticky tack, and keeping a tampon in with your pens. Teachers, man.
WAH! Want! Don't need!
