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He had gotten behind in all his other classes and had stayed behind, now he was in danger of failing everything but my class, he’d have to repeat the year save for English. Counselor asks me what I did to help the student.

“Oh, well I told him not to worry about anything he missed, and that as far as I was concerned he was already caught up and he could do his best in class going forward.”

One of the other teachers bawked, “I don’t see why we needed Mr. HexedDragon’s input, he just let the kid skip out on work! That’s not helpful!”

I replied, “The kids Dad just died, you really think the last six weeks worth of history matters to him in the slightest?”

The counselor smiled and pointed at me. “I invited Mr. HexedDragon because I knew he would say some things I’m not allowed to say.”

21. Another snoozer

Like most Spanish classes, all the students had “Mexican” versions of their names eg. Robert=Roberto. Kyle was sleeping in class one day when the teacher tried to wake him by calling him by his Mexican name, Carlos. After saying “Carlos”, multiple times without getting him to wake up, she got impatient and yelled “KYLE!” So Kyle wakes up and says, “Me llamo es Carlos.”