Tuesday Night Studies

I am currently studying for chemistry with multiple students.

Connor just said, "You know what I had for dinner?"

"TWO RED BULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This Is Just Like Mean Girls

Living with high schoolers--not my biological children, but forty 15-18 year olds for which I am responsible thanks to in loco parentis--means lots of funny little moments, and someone needs to document them. Today's moment, and the inspiration for my blog title (and the blog itself) is as follows:

When my students leave to go home for a long weekend, I hide the trash cans so they will not fill them up and leave me with several tons of trash to take out.

This weekend, however, my students outsmarted me by leaving six bags of their trash in the hallway...or so they thought.

Tonight at room check, I held a meeting with the students on my hall and put on quite a show. I began the meeting with the question, "Does anyone have any idea why we're having a hall meeting?" and one student guessed, "Because we left the hall messy?"

Then, I picked up a large gray trash bag and dumped the bags of trash left on my hall onto the lobby floor.

"This was left on our hall," I said. Then I held up an opened trash bag. "I was going to go through it all and figure out whose trash this was, but there were used tampons in here, and I didn't want to touch them."

There was some conversation about finding out who had a period last week. Then, I asked the question of the day: "Who here thinks it's acceptable to leave trash in the hall?"

Of course, nobody raised her hand.

"Nobody? All right, then. Whoever did this needs to own up to this. The punishment is two days without social privileges; if nobody admits to it, I'm taking social privileges from everyone on the hall."

One girl, Connor (side note: names will be changed to protect the guilty), spoke up and said, "I can claim three of those bags," and proved it to everyone by showing off her discarded applesauce container and PopTart box to the rest of the hall. Eventually, Connor decided to take one for the team and claim all six bags.

As Connor was bagging the trash to take it to the dumpster, Elizabeth spoke up and said, "Kim, this is just like Mean Girls."

Biggest compliment ever? Definitely.

After that, I simply said "Bethany made out with a hot dog. Now go upstairs, and make good choices."