WASL and Mixed Up Shoes

Last week a student came to class with two different shoes on his feet. On his left foot was a highly polished black dress shoe while on the right he rocked a gray and red running shoe. He chuckled and pointed it out on his way in the door, but it was I that christened it the Mullet shoes. Business in the front and party in the back. He laughed and reversed the shoes the next day. (He wanted the two pairs of shoes to receive equal wear and tear.) Unfortunately, the style has not caught on with the general public.

In other news, math WASL week has recently come to a close, which is good since I was tired of staring at the youngsters for two hours each day. The room was deathly quiet except for the sound of pencils moving against the pages. Once in a while I'd move around and see how far they were on the test, but besides that I'd watch. I had to be careful that cell phones and I-pods didn't sneak their way out of their pockets since that's grounds for disqualification. Do you know how difficult it is to tell teens that they have to be disconnected from the outside world for two hours? It's like asking them to cut off a limb, but worse! But thankfully they survived and can now live to tell the cell phoneless tell.