Taylor leaves me for about 12-25 hours a day each week day as per his teaching contract. The schedule isn’t terrible. The expectations of what to complete in those hours is impossible, though. Lesson planning, subbing classes & lunch & after school carpool, staff meetings, IEP meetings, grading, printing, cleaning the classroom… it’s a lot. And that doesn’t even begin to cover the physical ‘teaching’ aspect! Taylor was feeling the pressure of the job so I asked him to bring home tests for me to grade.

And you guys.

These kids don’t know how to math.

You might wonder if it’s because the teacher is overwhelmed with their job responsibilities that they haven’t done an effective job teaching the actual subject.

I promise you that’s not the case here. Because the students in question are 12 years old. There’s some kind of a brain shift at this age where their brains start “deleting” unimportant information. (This is legitimate by the way. I’ll ask Taylor for the psychological terms.) Incredibly, one of those pieces of information is critical thinking. They’ll develop this skill again over the next few years, but in the meantime it allows us some laughs at their attempt to solve math problems.

Oh honey I wish this was possible.

The “argh” moment for me here is that the student had the answer of $2! They then took it too far by subtracting from the total.

I love this kids’ frankness.

I love the funnel of decreasing lines. So random.

Again, I so wish this was possible.

I have not stopped laughing.

Such a fun age group. Thanks for bringing home the laughs Taylor. I hope your kiddos got a kick out of their corrected answers, too 🙂