My CE1 teacher the other day was losing her voice and therefore the ability to yell. She was marking X's next to kids' names (I'm still not 100% sure how that translates into punishment, but having a lot of X's isn't a good thing); however, despite that, the kids were still trying to take advantage of her sickness. It's become a personal belief of mine, since I started teaching here, that little kids can smell weakness, like a pack of very tiny, very
adorable wolves (wolf cubs, perhaps?) The class was whipping themselves up to an impressive fever pitch, undaunted by the X's, until the maîtresse managed to overcome her sickness and whip the kids into shape.
As she was dressing down the entire class, a very tiny, gap-toothed, generally well-behaved boy who sits right in the front row was providing sotto voce commentary like a Greek chorus.
Maîtresse: You kids are being just awful!
Boy: *nodding*
Maîtresse: Seriously, I'm losing my voice and I still have to yell at you!
Boy and surrounding students: Maîtresse, we're being good!
Maîtresse: You two in the back especially! We're all waiting for you to quiet down!
Boy: C'est exact.
It cracks me up when the kids do stuff like this. I have some classes where, a nanosecond after I shush the class, a kid will bellow out "SHE SAID BE QUIET!!!!!" at the top of their lungs.
And sometimes they just straight brown-nose. A very cute little girl who is just on the "class clown" side of troublemaker always has a trick or a comment that I have to seriously try my best not to laugh at. For example, one day she asked me "how do kids raise their hands in America?" then poked me in the ribs when I raised my hand. (To be fair, I knew this was a trick of some kind, but I kind of wanted to see what she had up her sleeve.) Or one day the teacher had to run downstairs for something and as she left she warned the class, "you have to behave for Megan because she can give you X's if you don't." This little girl waited for the door to close behind the teacher, raised her hand and said "hey, Megan! You're pretty!"
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They're so crazy! If my kids get three X's during class they don't get stickers, and I have a lot of kids who will raise their hand every five seconds and say "We should get an X now, no one is being respectful enough."
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