It says a lot about today that I was the good cop. Sort of.

During yesterday’s “bluff” my students discovered that 1) I don’t bluff and 2) their club coach (soccer) is an English teacher (and a former student of my colleague). He promised to make them run, once he saw them with me at lunch.Today, although I wan’t there, I heard they were shaking when they turned in the homework they didn’t finish at QAlunch. (Translation: I own them.)

Then, during my first class today, one of my 3rd grade students (9th grade) invoked the “I think it’s impossible therefore I don’t have to do it” rule. He failed at his first attempt to do his speech contest speech, then put his head on his desk and went to sleep. This mean the had a lunch date.

Luckily, his homeroom teacher is awesome and guaranteed the student would meet me at lunch.

The student showed up and did his speech.

I wish this meant I was done with speeches–and done with speech related posts–but there are two classes left to finish, and they are all bad.