new students, new lols

Our new semester just started 2 weeks ago, so I have a brand new batch of kids to give me lol-worthy stuff.

This one is a response to the sermon by Jonathan Edwards called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." The combination of bad spelling and interesting ways of putting things just made me giggle.

"I think that I would go crazy. There is no way I would have set there a liesoned to that preacher talk to me like that. It would have made me think that he thought he was above me and he was better then me. I would have goten mad. I would have liked it, but he is just like me. He puts his pants on the same way I do."

I did kind of lose him there in the middle, but the last line just made it necessary to post it. I wish they hadn't stopped testing kids on spelling. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what they mean. I assume "liesoned" means "listened" but one can never tell. This kid also mentioned the "surpants" that Edwards used in his comparisons...maybe that's why he talked about putting pants on in his reflection.

Another girl wrote, "I would've got up and left cause that man had done lost his mind." You've got to love the south, and kids' inability to realize they should not write the way they speak.

When I graded the same class's vocabulary assingment, I discovered that Papa Smurf is in my class. At least, he turned in a paper. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to figure out which kid is "Papa Smurf" so I won't bother to try. I just give zeros to the kids that didn't have a paper with their actual name on it.