My Intro to Business students are working on a project right now. I think I mentioned it before. It is a business simulation--the students learn to write checks, keep a ledger, keep simple journals--simple behind-the-scenes things that a business would have to do.
Some of my students are very frustrated--this is something very different from other school assignments--which is why I like it, and have used it for many years.
My biggest whiner, I'll call him Wilson, just sits and complains. So much so, that I have just tuned him out.
Today, at the end of class, Wilson stayed after to ask me, "Mr. Miller, why are you being so mean to us? Why do we have to do this project? Can't we quit?"
"I won't let you quit! I won't let you fail!" I said, "I care too much about you to let you not succeed!"
Wilson looked at me for a second, and said, "I love you, Mr. Miller." There was a long pause, and he added, " . . . but not in a homosexual way!"
I just smiled and said, "Get outa here!"
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