So - where was YOUR desk?

[Guest]

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[cloudy]

We attended meet the teacher night at the elementary school earlier this evening, just one short week after classes began.

It's a really good thing to get to know your child's teacher this early in the school year. We were also able to see the textbooks, see how they will be using their journals, find out what math techniques they'll be studying - it was very worthwhile.

Anyway, after arriving at the classroom the teacher directed the parents to sit at their child's desk.

We had to grin. Our son's desk? Right next to the teacher. Ahem.

(We're so proud.)

we do that, too, but spidey's class has two long wooden tables placed sort of diagonally to the board. Eight kids at each table.

Spidey usually has to be moved several times during the year. Mr. Sociable can't keep his mouth shut.

 

[starrkers]

Mine was right up the front under the blackboard one year
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[FatDino]

Mine was always at the first row until 7th grade because I was so tiny that everyone else would be blocking my view...and me...if I had been in the back. But then I started to move further and further to the back because...well...I wanted to talk in class.

 

[rgraham666]

Mine was always as far from the teacher as possible, and where I could watch my fellow students.

 

[Trombonus]

I was almost always in the back row. Best place to catch some Z's

Actually, to be honest I usually sat where my friends were sitting. It varied but it was usually somewhere in the middle.

 

[Darkniciad]

In 8th grade science, my seat was between the two bookshelves at the back of the room with the overhead projector cart pulled in front of me. It was actually on the seating chart that way, much to the confusion of substitute teachers.

 

[Trombonus]

In 8th grade science, my seat was between the two bookshelves at the back of the room with the overhead projector cart pulled in front of me. It was actually on the seating chart that way, much to the confusion of substitute teachers.

Some guys get all the luck.

 

[Bizkit_Writer]

i can't remember where mine was, it was to long ago! I think it was near the back or the front...

 

[joeys-game]

Well, i'd start out in the back (where i wanted to be).
By the end of the year, well I was up close and personal with 'teach'

 

[Darkniciad]

Some guys get all the luck.

Ah, no. Not luck - skill Sugar dipped chalk ( doesn't erase ) Rigged the Marlboro red box he always had in his jacket pocket to pop open with the slightest bending motion, combined with a really big paper clip rigged up under an eraser so that it popped off the tray to the floor with the slightest touch. Dumped the half pack and his lighter in the middle of class *laugh*

Scored the seat in the back instead of anything worse because I explained the scientific principles behind every prank I ever pulled on him. It was science class, after all.

 

[Trombonus]

Ah, no. Not luck - skill Sugar dipped chalk ( doesn't erase ) Rigged the Marlboro red box he always had in his jacket pocket to pop open with the slightest bending motion, combined with a really big paper clip rigged up under an eraser so that it popped off the tray to the floor with the slightest touch. Dumped the half pack and his lighter in the middle of class *laugh*

Scored the seat in the back instead of anything worse because I explained the scientific principles behind every prank I ever pulled on him. It was science class, after all.

You are awesome.

 

[Sapphire_O]

We had to sit in alphabetical order and I always ended up right by the teacher. I got very good at passing notes undetected. Perhaps a vital stop along my road to becoming a writer.

 

[Vermilion]

I always sat near the front at school and answered a question nice and early on in each class, cos if you did that then the teacher thought you were keen and didn;t pester you with questions you don;t know the answer to.

If I was feeling lazy I'd sit front-middle and off to the side out of the teacher's eyeline.

I never went and sat at the back because people at the back either got moved to the front or picked on.

At Uni I always sat right in the front row, because I needed to make recordings of the lectures to help my notes and if I had anyone in front of me, all I picked up was them coughing and rustling.

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[Chantilyvamp]

depended on what year. I was a shorty as well so in the front most of the time and then started to talk more so was moved about here and there to try and find someone they thought I wouldn't talk to In a one class it depended on how pissed off at the teacher i got over them making fun of my name. Let the pranks begin and went to the back of the class quick then. 6th grade on we sat where ever we liked which was pretty much everywhere. Though 7th grade one of my friends and I sat in the back because we tended to be the ones that helped pierce the guys ears during class.

 

[oggbashan]

Almost always at the back.

During primary school years I was so much larger than my contemporaries that if I had sat further forward I would block someone's view (and the teacher's view).

Later, I just gravitated to the back because that's where I'd always been and my distance vision was good.

Og

 

[impressive]

My classes were always arranged alphabetically -- in rows -- not like the modular approach used in the schools around here now.

That put me next to Albert Miller every damned year, and he was creepy.

 

[buxxxom]

In elementary school, I was always in or near the back, because my last name started with a letter from the end of the alphabet. My first name, too, come to think of it. I was never in the front.

In later classes, high school and such, I'd choose a seat next to a wall just so I could turn sideways in my seat and lean back.

 

[Remec]

My desk always depended on how the teacher set up their room. With a last name ending in 'B', if they were going alphabetical I ended up somewhere up front, but if we had free reign to sit where we pleased (until moved for behaviour--ours or others') then I always sat in the last row.

I hate having people sit behind me, plus if we had a desk and chair instead of a joined unit I could lean it back against the wall and be comfortable. *g*


My 9th grade English teacher had this little board like a Jeopardy home game, and she would randomly assign everyone to a seat--she had chits with all of our names on them--and then change it up the first day back after report cards had gone home so that we would have potentially different people around us every grading period.

 

[glynndah]

I needed glasses for years before I actually got them so I sat in the front row so I could see the blackboard. Of course, that didn't work because I still couldn't see it, but I learned to listen very well.

 

[neonlyte]

Bribes changed hands in Miss Sutcliffe's class. I can't remember what the bribes were, only her short skirt and so long legs.

I sat at the front.

Centre.


Usually with my head on the desk.

 

[ishtat]

We sat in alphabetical order except for half a dozen left handers who were placed on one side. the teacher had a theoy that lefties were more likely to have dyslexic problems and that was supposed to help.

It was my misfortune one year to sit behind a kid with terminal acne - for which he was prescribed sulpher tablets. It was not pleasant.

 

[glynndah]

Oh, and I had a college English class where the instructor sat us "boy-girl-boy-girl so we wouldn't talk". I often wondered what in the world she was thinking...