I haven’t posted in forever and I know that you’ve all missed my stories from classroom. Like today in a parent-teacher-counselor conference when I told the parent: Your child needs to suck it up and drop the middle school behaviors.
But I digress… Today was the annual “Breast Cancer Awareness” assembly for the junior and senior girls. I’ve been to it - it’s good. They have young women who are breast cancer survivors talk about self exams, they have a powerpoint with pictures (hence no boys allowed). This year the assembly occurred during my planning period. I happened to wander into my friend’s AP Statistics class to talk to him about a freshmen he had last semester and the boys in there complaining about how they should have been allowed to go to the assembly, because boys can get breast cancer. My smart ass friend reminds them that based on the amount of breast tissue they have, statistically they’re not even close to the risk it poses to females. Then they start bitching about how they want an assembly about testicular cancer. To which I reply….
“Teenage boys have such close relationship with their balls they don’t need someone to tell them if there’s a lump in one of them.”
As they would say, BURN!