Wednesday, April 13, 2005
A disaster of biblical proportions
Just when it seemed like my last class of the day couldn't get any worse.
Actual question posed by a student who was supposed to be taking notes on physical properties of matter:
"Mr. ____________, can a dog have sex with a cat?"
The student who asked this claimed not merely that the aforementioned trans-species coupling was possible, but that he had actually witnessed such in his garage. He then proceeded to give a stunning (no other word fits really) interpretation of what such an encounter would sound like. Sadly, the written word is incapable of capturing this latest demonstration of how far my classroom management appears to have fallen in recent weeks, at least so far as that class is concerned. So far as science is concerned, I think they have only one field on their minds: reproductive biology. And unlike most teenagers, they don't limit it to members of the opposite sex...here it transcends species! What a world.
Just when it seemed like my last class of the day couldn't get any worse.
Actual question posed by a student who was supposed to be taking notes on physical properties of matter:
"Mr. ____________, can a dog have sex with a cat?"
The student who asked this claimed not merely that the aforementioned trans-species coupling was possible, but that he had actually witnessed such in his garage. He then proceeded to give a stunning (no other word fits really) interpretation of what such an encounter would sound like. Sadly, the written word is incapable of capturing this latest demonstration of how far my classroom management appears to have fallen in recent weeks, at least so far as that class is concerned. So far as science is concerned, I think they have only one field on their minds: reproductive biology. And unlike most teenagers, they don't limit it to members of the opposite sex...here it transcends species! What a world.
