What My Students Said Today

Neck camouflage

misshotdog — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:51:34 +0000

ALEX: Miss Hot Dog, are you wearing that scarf to hide a hickey?

MISS HOT DOG: Alex, I haven’t seen your dad in two weeks.

- Alex, 12th grade

Love scene

misshotdog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:18:09 +0000

Hearing giggles and rumbles from one side of the room, I paused the video the class was watching.

MISS HOT DOG: Marcus, is this love scene making you uncomfortable?

MARCUS: This ain’t no love scene. They just talking and hugging.

WESLEY: Yeah, a love scene is when you get nekkid and do it.

MISS HOT DOG: Out of the mouths of babes.

- Marcus and Wesley, 10th grade

A new perversion

misshotdog — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:10:33 +0000

KENYA: Miss Hot Dog, Marcus be over here touchin’ my leg.

MARCUS: I am not!

KELCEY: He do that, he do! He a molester. Marcus likes to hump on kneecaps.

MARCUS: (Laughing) I do not!

KELCEY: Kneecap humper! Kneecap humper!

- Kenya, Marcus, and Kelcey, 10th grade

Nosy

misshotdog — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:30:03 +0000

“Miss Hot Dog, you have large nostrils.”

- Danielle, 10th grade

What women want

misshotdog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:46:30 +0000

When I asked my students to describe the marriage between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, several of them used the new vocabulary word “emasculate.” (This was my goal! Score a point for Miss Hot Dog!) One student “slipped” and pronounced the word “emasturbate” instead. Another student, a very bright senior, jumped all over him:

“Fool! Masturbation ain’t got nothin’ to do with emasculation… unless you’re doin’ it wrong.”

- Lauren, 12th grade

White and pasty

misshotdog — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:59:59 +0000

“But, Miss Hot Dog is black. She just looks all white and pasty.”

- Marcus, 10th grade

Lipstick is a good improvement

misshotdog — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:50:45 +0000

“That lipstick is a good improvement. It matches your shoes.

…What? I just like to give compliments.”

– Michael, 12th grade