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Kyleen Carpenter
Head / Principle of BACS
One morning when I was teaching my Spanish 3 class at my old school, I went to sit down on a chair in the classroom while my students were doing their entrance ticket. The chair I was sitting in was used for music classes after school, and the seat of this special chair was able to slide out to raise and lower the height of the seat.
Well....someone had not slid the seat in securely the night before, so when I went to sit down, the whole chair collapsed and I literally fell down and rolled over on the floor! My students were trying not to laugh, because they wanted to make sure I was okay, but in the end we all laughed together because it was so ridiculous!
For my first REALLY big assignment in teaching school I had to plan a lesson and then record a video of the whole thing. I had taught before, but this video was going to go to the heads of the program and I HAD to pass in order to stay in the program. The date they picked was the day we were teaching a Sex Ed lesson on how to put on a condom. I wasn't actually embarrassed about that because it's a pretty important skill. I planned a whole lesson, and it went really well....until the penis model fight started. And was captured on video.
Aaron Weinblatt
Science Teacher & Advisor
Maria Silva
Special Services Coordinator
When I was in high school my friends and I were trying to be cute while we walked by a group of boys outside the main school building and I slipped on a patch of ice and fell on my a** in front of the boys and one of the boys was a boy I had a crush on!!! So embarrassing they were all laughing and I was the joke for a while.
One morning, I took my kids to the Botanical Gardens in Roger Williams Park. There, I ran into a couple who were new to my kids' school. We chatted for a long time, smiling politely, while the kids looked at the plants. The dad kept looking away while we spoke and I thought that was kind of strange behavior. Well, when we got back to the car and I adjusted my rear view mirror while smiling, I was shocked to see my teeth were filled with the blueberry skins from the smoothie I drank on the way there! I'm talking huge purple chunks stuck everywhere! And instantly, I knew why the dad had been looking away the whole time I was speaking to him and it was to keep from laughing!
Julie Gearan
Paul Pasaba
Math Teacher & Advisor
Something embarrassing that I was constantly doing during distance learning was talking about a slideshow that I meant to show the class but forgetting to hit the "Present now" button so that like 10 minutes into class some student would be like "are we supposed to be seeing something on our screens, mister?"
Rhonda Hanaway
Career Advisor
A few years back, we had a fire drill at BACS and I ran outside with my coffee in my hand. I tripped down the steps and fell on my knees. I managed to get back up, though...without spilling my coffee! LOL
Olivia Bedford
English Teacher & Advisor
My first year teaching, I tripped over a chair and landed hard on my backside. My clipboard went flying and my class thought it was just about the funniest thing that ever happened. Since then, I've become pretty obsessive about pushing chairs in!
When we were in person, I used to call my teacher bestie through their speakerphone and sing really loud or yell things to try to bother her. One day, I called and had my whole class singing a song I knew she loved, but her class was in the middle of a really serious discussion! She was horrified and had to pick up the phone and whisper-shush us to stop singing. It was so cringy.
Mal
English Teacher & Advisor
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