There is never a dull day in teaching. Of course, 'never a dull day' has a rather broad definition. The teachers whom I train would replace these exciting times of teaching with the expression, 'vomit blood'. To give a better illustration of such fun times, I will be talking about two stories that best illustrate this.
However, before that let's give you a bit of a background of what vomiting blood means. Of course, this is not meant literally but more of a figurative expression. The term stems from a Chinese expression. Here's an example of how it is used, "I am going to vomit blood if I have to remind you to do your homework again for the eighth time". I hope that gives you an idea to the tone of the stories, so let us begin.
The 9 year old, lets call her Vicky, decided that the question and the prompts were boring. She then started concocting her own version of the story. Her story was about how the old woman had accidentally soiled her pants. As she was trying to rush to a toilet, she tripped, fell and fainted.
On came two boys who wanted to help the lady. As they could smell the stench coming out of her soiled pants, they were curious and lifted her skirt to see what was going on. As the essay got a bit 'interesting', involving more skirt lifting and poop splatting, I stopped her.
It is taking a while, but I hope one day, the stories involving poop would eventually stop.
It was not long before I thought that this had to stop. I spoke to him personally and told him that it had to stop. He agreed that it was a bad habit and that it had to change. However, this continued on without any end in sight. I finally threatened him. If he would not stop, I will tell his mother.
The swearing has since reduced. I did find out that his habit stems from his parents' habit of swearing as well. I have been advising him on this. Hopefully, he would one day be able to string a sentence without a swear word in it.
