Snowflake Smackdown....Wow.

I found myself trying hard not to laugh in class the other night. When a snowflake volunteered a particularly ridiculous comment why his wrong answer should be correct for a quiz, another student responded with, “No, you’re supposed to read the question, and if you look, it is letter E, because the answers A and B are referenced in that answer, and you have to have both parts.”

Oh, it was priceless, to hear exactly what I would have said to the flake—but coming out of a student’s mouth! And, with far more sarcasm than I can articulate in the classroom if I want to continue to appear professional! Wow.

Pretty soon, half the class that finally got the critical reading skills I’ve been working hard to drill into their heads were pouncing on the other ones who still haven’t mastered reading what is actually there on the page, not what they want it to say…let alone how to find the cues to decipher the correct answers for the quizzes.

Snowflake smackdown by former snowflakes equals priceless! Especially since it means they actually learned something these last few months…..