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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   Wow . . . all of a sudden I hear crickets chirping, pins hitting ground, sound of sunlight hitting glass. “How to calm a noisy class down in only 9 words.”
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   Jean said, 3 months ago

   I used to have a teacher that never asked who knew the answer, she would just go down the rows and ask the next person in line but some days she would go all the way down row 1 then to 2 and some days she would do 3rd person on row 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. You never knew. Kept us on our toes and this was in highschool.
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   lightenup said, 3 months ago

   I hardly ever raised my hand, even if I knew the answer. There was always that chance that I’d be laughed at.
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   Stella S said, 3 months ago

   I never raised my hand, but the teacher seemed to always call on me (at least it felt that way).
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   phritzg said, 3 months ago

   Don’t make eye contact, either.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

   @Stella S

   Probably it only felt that way. I was in a play a few years ago with five other actors. We each sat on stools or benches as the others did their scenes. I later learned that each of believed we were the only ones fidgeting the whole time, while the others held perfectly still. Then when I saw it back on DVD, I couldn’t see any of us moving very much.
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   Susan Thomas said, 3 months ago

   Oftentimes it was the people that DIDN’T raise their hands that the teacher called on.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   @Stella S

   Good teachers are more likely to call on the ones not raising their hands.
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   comicsssfan said, 3 months ago

   Some Raptors react to no movement. It’s unpredictable. With math if you betray a look of terror you’ll get called on.
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    ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

    @comicsssfan

    Mathematics . . . the bane of my schooling! I got a 63 in my grade 12 math course, I remember because for me, that was exceptionally high! (In mathematics, that is.)
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    Comic Minister said, 3 months ago

    Not really Ms. Payne.
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    InkTraveler said, 3 months ago

    T-Rex’s react to movement, not raptors. Raptors can see you very well, moving or not.
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