Unfiltered Story #32564

(I am teaching a 5th grade choir class. It is early in the year, so the students don’t know me well yet, nor do I know them. We are working on learning a new song, and I notice a student holding a 3-sided highlighter. I think nothing of it, until I glance back over a moment later and he has both arms inside his shirt.)

Me: *caught completely off guard, despite years of teaching experience* Um…are you putting a highlighter in your armpits in the middle of class?

Other students: *giggle*

Highlighter student: *with a look of embarrassment* No…

*the highlighter falls out of his shirt*

Me: Was it at least one of the scented ones?

Highlighter student: *nods sheepishly*

Me: Ok then. Back to page 3 of our song.

*resumes class as if nothing unusual happened*