It always warms my heart when my students are hard at work either independently or in groups, and they raise their hands to ask a question. What is less pleasant is the nature of the questions since they are completely unrelated to the work in front of them.
1. Miss, how long your hair is?
2. Is that all your hair?
3. How long you been natural?
4. Is you gon' flat iron out your hair?
5. Miss, where you from?
6. You from Chicago, ain't it? (nah, she from New York)
7. Miss, is you mixed?
At least I inspire curiosity in the classroom.
