I'd love to be able to send messages to people telepathically. It'd have been very useful when I was invigilating the big two-thirds-of-the-way-through-the-year end-of-year test the year eights were doing this afternoon. I was walking round the sports hall desperately trying to implant thoughts into the heads of the ones I teach: 'the answer is thirty! Thirty! THIRTY!' I've often thought that it's possible to think loudly whilst still not actually making any noise. Today I was positively screaming inside my head: 'BALANCE THE EQUATION! BALANCE IT DAMMIT!'
I'm not sure it worked. I think the not very subtle looking at their answers and smiling or winking if they were correct might have helped though.
As for kids in other people's classes, well, who cares?
