Dear Middle School Parents

Dear Middle School Parents,
You may not know this, but I used to be a sub. So when your kid acts up for my sub, your kid is getting detention. There's really not much more to it. How do I know it was your kid and not someone else's? Well, THE SUB TOLD ME.
Let me give you a little insight into the world of a substitute teacher. Subs don't have time to breathe. So the fact that my sub took the time to learn your child's name AND leave me a note about his behavior while still completing a PowerPoint over the Renaissance and Two-Point Perspective tells me your kid acted up. Plus, I could have assigned detention before I even hired the sub and I still would have been spot on with her "bad" list.
She didn't name the wrong kid. I'll see yours after school on Tuesday.
Love,
Ms. Nelson

Why I teach:

so THIS is how I get cat hair in my purse

Coolest shirt ever?

Thanks to the nation of Japan and my student Eli for making our day.

Really, Frisco?

My pledge sister is on TV.

And thankfully it's not a reality show.


Lauren Przybyl is the new co-anchor of Fox4 Dallas' Good Day, replacing Megan Henderson. Stop crying, gentlemen.

Przybyl. Oh, it takes me back.

"Nelson, Nelson, Pelly, Perkins, Perry, Phillips, Presley, Price, Prince, Pruitt, Prysbyl, Robertson..."

Like a BOSS!

So I'm sitting in class on Friday (middle school) and one of my kids asks if he is finished. They have gotten in the habit of asking me if their artwork is finished instead of just assuming; I almost always send them back to their desk to work some more. Friday was no exception. This particular student asked if he was finished, and I said, "No, you need to work on your values. I want darker darks and lighter lights." He goes back to his desk and says... I kid you not...

"Workin' on my values, like a BOSS!"

To which I say, not even thinking,

"Bomb the Russians, like a BOSS!"

Now I'm sure some of you are thinking, "What's the big deal? What's this boss stuff all about?" Yeah... well... it's a SNL Digital Short, and it is NOT classroom appropriate. Case in point:

Needless-to-say every 8th grader spins their head around and says, "Miss Nelson, you know "Like a Boss?" "You watch Saturday Night Live?" I wanted to scream that I have been watching SNL since before they were born, but I refrained. I hated it when my teachers said that.

Instead I just swallowed my pride... like a BOSS!