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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.
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