Teachonary: a teacher's
compilation of terms

(produced due to extreme boredom
while students are taking their third long exam)

Teacher Mara's students

a well-defined collection of (unfortunate) young people, usually aged from 16-19, who go to the same classroom everyday to get bored, scribble some notes and give their teacher a brain tumor.

After two days

the usual length of time it takes for some students to digest or understand a few basic concepts, or to answer a simple arithmetic question. (A calculus questions takes two weeks).

Slingshot

every teacher's dream gadget, which can be used to aim at unusually hard-headed and irritatingly arrogant students, but can't be used though, because the teacher might be punished for child abuse.

Dropping Slip

a wonderful little blue paper equivalent to one less paper to check (to the student, this is equivalent to becoming math-free until the end of the semester).

Removal Permit

a brown sheet of paper equivalent to one more paper to check for the removal exams (to the student, this is his ticket to that one last chance of passing the course).

Proctoring

a fancy term to describe what a teacher does (such as writing essays, checking papers, reading HTML books or staring at the window) while students scribble their mathematical frustration during exams.

Blue Book

a booklet which is full of mathematical frustrations of students, usually collected after 1-2 hours of a teacher's boring proctoring job.

Purple Book

what happens to a student's blue book after being painted red by the teacher.

Celfone

something that chirps the latest dance tune, breaking the eerie silence of an exam, even if students are asked to switch off their phones during exams.

Ahem-hem-hem

what you hear when students take turns coughing during an exam to break the silence. (Slrk-slrk is when they take turns sniffing).

Please pass your papers

what a teacher "chants" (and probably repeats nine times) when collecting exam blue books from students who have no intention of passing their exam (literally and figuratively).

At the count of two, I want all papers in ... two!

a variation of please pass your papers.