The school where I teach has a tradition that makes the last day of school before winter break a free day, where teachers can plan fun activities or students can do whatever they want. Conversation has already begun about what kind of epic shenanigans will take place on Friday, because everyone knows that everything becomes 10000x more fun when done in a classroom during normal school hours (with the exception of learning).
The other day in class some kids were talking about what games to bring in. Monopoly was a crowd favorite until one kid suggested Cards Against Humanity. A few other kids expressed support, but had reservations about playing it at school. One kid cleverly thought to ask me if I knew about the game, figuring that I would have no idea what it was and could be easily persuaded to naively allow them to play it in class.
Instead, I said: “Yes. My friend invented it.”
Cue collective eighth grade shit losing – not because of the celebrity-by-association status that the phrase sometimes awards me, but because of the mind blowing revelation that their TEACHER, who is the standard bearer for all things SCHOOL APPROPRIATE, would have a FRIEND who created such an INAPPROPRIATE game.
We will not be playing Cards Against Humanity in my classroom on Friday.