Why my conservative Catholic colleagues should hate me today

Okay, okay, I admit it: sometimes I'm not a very good role model. I can't help it. It's just too hard to keep up the teacher mode all day long. Being all smiles, talking in high pitches, giving positive feedback with stern direction - it's exhausting. Have you tried it?

There is one class in particular that I tend to let my guard down too much in - 7th/8th grade band. There are only 8 kids in the class total, and I like all of them. Sure they don't ever practice and I've been pretty mad at them before, but all in all, they are one of my favorite classes. Earlier in the school year I got caught by one of the other teachers here cursing at my percussionist. I swear I had no idea that she was there. At least it was the gym teacher, and I haven't gotten any crap about it so I'm guessing she didn't say anything. And I wasn't cussing to be mean or anything. All the kids said that "Bob" feel down during gym and hurt his butt and that he was upset and crying so when he walked into the room, without thinking I said "Hey Bob, I heard you hurt your ass". Oh yeah. I said it. And immediately after, I realized what I had said and had an oh shit moment where I felt my job in danger and an even bigger shit when the gum teacher poked her head in the door with raised eyebrows.

But that was why my colleagues should hate me like 2 months ago. I digress.

So today I'm feeling kind of crappy and tired and I can tell that the kids are all out of it too. I'm in one of those "I don't want to do anything, when is this day over" kind of moods. So I'm sitting at my desk and the kids are setting up their instruments and talking about all kinds of stuff and then one of them brought up YouTube and random things on it and what would come up but unnecessary censored videos. And this is what I proceeded to watch with my whole class:







I'm a horrible teacher. But hey, my students like me. I just wish that they weren't all doomed to end up as close-minded as their families. I'm just the silly liberal. Still, you've gotta love the count!