"I know you are, but what am I?"

Since rescheduling some classes has left us with a set of middle school kids at the end of the day, we've been trying to find ways to keep them entertained. Parents called the school angry (how else would they call) saying that their middle school kid came home 20 minutes early from English school. Stupid kids, if you are going to skip out on the playground, don't go STRAIGHT home, yeesh!

Modus operandi for the English staff here is to cluck wildly about something a parent complained about, no matter how irrational the complaint was. Seeing as my modus operandi is to be left the HELL alone by the rest of the English staff on the whole, and just teach my classes, I remain in a torpor over things that they consider some sort of event bordering on the second coming of Buddy Jebus or something. This being the case, Samantha and I were given the job of figuring out how to entertain 4 middle school children, 3 of which are fairly apathetic to English in general.

The quick solution was me hooking up my Playstation 2 to our big screen TV and playing "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" for 25 minutes today. That's right, I'm using that movie as fine grade educational material. I mean, I was reared on it in my youth, and was at one time able to recite nearly the entire film with my brother from memory (many apologies to my parents). Hell, it's got enough visual gags in it alone that the kids were entertained without really understanding the comedic timing of lines such as "I'm a loner Dottie, a rebel."

At least I found it funny, and the kids didn't revolt or anything. Next I'll hear a complaint about how their children want to purchase red bow ties and talk in a high pitched voice. (Shrugs)