What's Your Response?

With first quarter in the books, it's time once again to review some of the favorite missing homework stories as told to me by students.

"Where's your homework?"

Response #1:

Student: "Well,... you see it's like this. My mom said you were teaching it wrong and by the time she taught me the right way, it was time for me to go to bed."


Response #2:

Student: "Our wood floors were being done last night and my homework was inside the house and I couldn't go in to get it."

Mr. Kelly: "How did your homework get in to the house in the first place?"

Student: "I put it there. How do you think?"

Response #3:

Student: "I planned to do it last night when I got home, but then the plans changed."


Mr. Kelly: "Oh, I see. Did your parents take you somewhere or you had some family thing that popped up?"

Student: "No."

Mr. Kelly: "So, no emergency,... no unforeseen trip out,... you were just at home,.. all night?"

Student: "Well,... yeah. Can I turn it in tomorrow and can you not count it late?"

Response #4:

Student: "I just had it and now it's GONE!"

Mr. Kelly: "Where did you just have it?"

Student: "I'm pretty sure it was right here! (pointing at the desk top)"

Mr. Kelly: "Well, let's check around to make sure that it didn't fly off somewhere." I made my way back to the hanging file folders to check the outgoing mail for students.

Student: "Oh no,... I know it was here! And now it's gone, just like that!!"

Mr Kelly: "Would this be your paper that you're looking for? And would this be the papers you never took home last night? (holding up a full file folder)"


Response #5:

Student: "You never gave me the assignment."

Mr. Kelly: "Yes I did. I passed it out to everyone in class."

Student: "I must have been gone."

Mr. Kelly: "Then I would have laid it on your desk."

Student: "It must have fell off then."

Mr. Kelly: "So what did you do when you returned from your trip, from where ever you went, and we spent 40 minutes working on the assignment in class yesterday?"

Student: "I don't know. You never gave me the assignment."

Student 2 walks in: "We worked on it together yesterday. Mine's right here (holds up the paperwork)."

Student: "Oh that assignment! I know I did it, but I can't find it."

Response #6:

Student: "I left it in my backpack."

Mr. Kelly: "Where's your backpack?"

Student: "In my locker."