Music is really important to me and I play…played two instruments, I played the flute and the cello. I’m not saying my response was textbook, by any means, but it was honest and in the moment.

The burly boy went down to the office, later apologized to me, and I seemed to have him and my other students with me from that point on.

I guess you might just need English?” Now, I didn’t do it to be popular with them, but I did want to diffuse the tension immediately, and downplay what was happening so I could calm him down, and get back to business. You need to understand what words mean so you don’t make stupid mistakes like that one again. He just looked at me confused, so I said, “See. Ick.” The class immediately started saying things like, “Oh, snap!” “Dude, you got burned,” etc. In my characteristic, sarcastic nature, I simply shuddered and went, “No thank you. R! F- you.” The students in the class swung around to look at me with mouths wide open. When he saw that he got a zero because he cheated, he stood up in front of the class and said, “F- you, Ms. I can’t think of a truly “worst” as being one moment, but can say that during my first year of teaching, I had a burly young man cheat on a vocabulary quiz one time.

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