Starting Younger and Younger

On Halloween my Freshman were totally insane and stoked for the evening's festivities, so rather than fight them, I decided to join them and we wrote scary stories and read them to each other. During the reading we turned off the lights and used various cell phones as flashlights to read them to each other. It was really fun and many of the kids got very creative.

Well, at one point a counselor came into my room to get a student and I had to go over to the door and talk to her. On my way over I noticed that one of my Freshman boys was sitting with a girl on his chair and his arms around her. So I gave them a look. The boy replied, "she was scared!"

Only 14 years old and already a player... aye!

Penslaughter

So, I had this pen...I say had, because the pen is no more...but a few days ago I had this pen. It was a BYU Cougars pen I had bought at the BYU Bookstore one day when I found myself penless. It was the cheapest pen there, so not all that exciting, but a faithful pen nonetheless.

Well, a few days ago, I found this pen in a box in my desk drawer and I was like, "hey, I forgot about this pen." So I used it...this was the beginning of the end.

I used this pen the other day to take roll and then left the pen on the computer lab cart that was in my room and promptly forgot about it. At the end of the period I am sitting at my desk getting ready for my next class, when I look up at the last student who is leaving my class. This particular student sleeps through my class EVERY BLASTED DAY and so EVERY BLASTED DAY I have to kick his desk to wake him up for a few minutes before he resumes his REM cycle. Well, on this day as he is leaving I say, "see ya later," and I actually get a response of "see ya later" in return. Just as I look down at my computer again I notice his hand move toward the cart of computers and grab something. My pen. I turn my head back and see that indeed, he has picked up my pen and is readying to exit the room and I say, "ummm...is that my pen?"

This is the EXACT pen

He says, "yeah."

I ask, "Sooo...are you stealing my pen?"

To which he responds, "Well...but it's such a nice pen."

To which I counter, "yeah...that's why I bought it. Put it back."

So he chuckles and leaves the room.

SERIOUSLY KID?! You were going to full on steal my pen?

So the next day I am in a different class and I am circulating and checking to make sure they understand their counterclaim assignment, when I notice one kid has my pen...AND IT IS BROKEN IN HALF!!! I was like what the crap is with this pen?!

So I ask this kid, "why did you break my pen?"

To which he responds, "It was already mostly broken so I just broke it some more."

WHAT!!!?? So besides almost being pen-napped, a second student semi-destroyed it and then a THIRD student finished it off??! WHY MUST MY STUDENTS BE BENT ON DESTROYING THIS PEN?!