I told my students that due to weather and travel complications on a snow day, I had only slept for three hours the night before.
“So be good to me today!” I demanded. “I need your kindness to survive the day.”
“I think this might be it,” one student said.
“What?” I asked.
“I think today is the day we can finally destroy you.”
Then another student pointed at me and spoke. “I still think he has more energy than us. Look at him.”
“You’re right,” the first one said. “Forget it.”
I’ve never felt so simultaneously good about myself and disappointed with my students for not thinking better of themselves and setting higher expectations, even if doing so could apparently lead to my destruction.
