Prompt: If you were President for a day, what would you do and why?


Marquis (5th grade): "I would make baking soda illegal."

Me: "Why"

Marquis: "Cause that's how they make crack."



Another goodie:


Larry: "I would give to the poor."


Me: "How?"


Larry: "Well, like, I already send "Save the Manatees a check every year""

One of my newly graduated students commenting on my move to New Orleans:

"Well Luke, if I see a white man with a Superman curl floating on the TV screen, I'll know it's you."



The same student commenting on another teacher's black suit:

"...And Sigler looks like he belongs in a coffin."

A response to the following prompt:

What are you going to do in the year after graduation? Provide details.


Mike:

"I'm going to sit in the house and live off my grandmom. She going to buy me every thing because that what i do. People is going to tell me to get a job but im not. I might rob and kill people if needed if money coming short."

Me: "I'm leaving for my cousin's graduation."

Student: "You know you're gonna be shootin' in the air afterwards shouting, "Yeee Haaa!"


Some more:

"You and me are the same Luke: you grew up in the trailer park and I grew up in the hood."

While waiving a binder in the air:

"Luke, is this how you dried your dishes down in North Carolina?"

Quote of the Day:

"Luke, you black even though you spent your childhood throwing beer cans at dogs in the trailer park."

After seeing me with a metallic silver shirt on, one of my students shouts:

"Luke, what'd you get 2nd place or somethin'?"


After seeing me with a pair of Clarks on (http://clarks.zappos.com/n/p/dp/16225604/c/2198.html), another student shouts:

"...And you look like you have pieces of toast on your feet!"


After wearing black dress shoes:

"...Look at those ironing boards on Luke's feet!"


My favorite:

"Luke's pants are so tight they give his legs asthma."

Anwar: "Luke looks like he's a Taekwondo expert."