NYM and the Can
Posted on July 1, 2008
Filed under Summer School Sagas
Nice Young Man (NYM) who has been sick for a day, returns and starts working.
NYM has his head down twice and is reminded that one more head-down event, he will promptly be sent home.
NYM asks me “can I go to the bathroom?”
I reply with normal summer school emotion,”yes.”
Tick tock Tick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tock….
Time passes quickly to nearing 10 minutes. Pencil, packet and calculator sit idol. NYM is MIA.
I send a fellow male to check the bathroom to assure the NYM did not fall in.
Whew, crisis averted as I get the report that NYM did not fall in. However, NYM is nowhere to be found, bathroom-wise.
Few more minutes pass and I report to my colleague that I am going on a NYM hunt. I search every unlocked, dark room simply because I fear NYM has taken the opportunity to steal a cat nap in an empty room.
Yet another crisis averted and one more arises. No NYM to be found upon scanning rooms and checking with secretaries.
I return to my room with curiosity circling in my head. Where has NYM gone? What possibly could a NYM want to do besides complete his remedial grade 7 summer school packet on this sunny day?
Ring, ring! Ring, ring! My colleague shuffles to the phone to have a fine conversation with NYM’s mom. Turns out NYM didn’t want to be in summer school today and told his mom quite the fabrication of a lie.
According to NYM’s mom, NYM came home claiming that he stated he had a stomach ache and thus, his kind math teacher told him to go home.
Minutes later NYM is returned by his flustered mom. We part our ways as we agree to allow NO bathroom breaks outside of the ritual that is 10AM snack.
Chart of Summer School Supplies
| Pencil | the thing student sharpens over and over without reason |
| kleenex | The reason he gets up to walk in the room |
| eraser | the thing he picks to shreads daily |
| calculator | the shiny thing with buttons that doesn’t make video game noises, why not? |
| lump | the thing that we call 6th graders who have remedial math work to do |
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