Is This Real Life

My students in the younger grades do the strangest things.  What seems to be universal is that they are absorbed in their own little worlds instead of listening to lecture.  I catch a lot of them bored out of their minds, making goofy facial expressions.  I guess they think no one is looking at them.  But no.  I am looking.  I am looking at the kid in the front row who has his open workbook plopped over his head.  I am looking at the boy sucking on the zipper of his sweatshirt.  He recently lost his two front teeth which permits the zipper to conveniently rest between the gap of his gums.  I am looking at the little girl painting her nails with pink highlighter.  I am looking at the kid drawing on the table and poking holes in his eraser.  I am looking at the kids who aren't sitting properly in their seats, leaning backwards on them.  Don't get me started on the ones who are picking their nose (that one's a given).  It is safe to say they are doing anything else besides learning.  At the end of the day I find myself questioning my sanity:  I thought I was silly- but boy do these kids take it to the next level.

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