So What Would You Do If Your 13 Year Old Student Came to Class

[Niagara]

36. I understand

Several years ago I was slinging hash to junior high students in a public school. It was "hat day" at school and I had a young man who came through my lunch line wearing a MAGA hat. I felt physically ill while serving him and it was my job to be the professional adult toward an obviously influenced and not informed young mind.


It actually reminded me of a time during my sophomore year of high school. We had visited family and went to Grant's Farm in St. Louis. My mom said that I could pick out a t-shirt in the gift shop at Grant's Farm. The t-shirts for sale were mainly all Budweiser advertisements and I knew it would be against the school's dress code policy. I ended up choosing a St. Louis Cardinals t-shirt so that I could wear it to school. During one of my classes, I ended up getting negatively called out by a teacher for my new St. Louis Cardinals t-shirt because "they sucked."


I might have an idea for you. I would ask the Physical Ed. teachers if they have the colored jerseys that they sometimes have kids wear to divide in teams. If they have them available, you could divide your class in teams to play Fact or Crap on the days this student wears his hoodie. If you decide to do this, make sure you have prizes to give out to the winning team.

Fact or Crap is where teams make up both true and false facts and other teams have to determine if these facts are actually Fact (true) or Crap (false). Someone needs to keep score.