As is my usual style I was bouncing around in front on the blackboard this morning whilst teaching my year nines. I would never blatantly lie to my pupils and say that frequency tables are the most exciting things in the world, when they're plainly not, but I do at least try and make out that I think they come pretty close.

One girl who has the rare capacity for a teenager to have a bit of a joke but not take it too far wondered out loud if I was high, she even said that my pupils looked rather small, which seeing as I haven't done any PSHE lessons on drugs recently I'm only guessing must have some narcotic implication. I responded by saying that I would never smoke anything before school (though could name some teachers who might). I wouldn't smoke anything after either though am concerned that my response may have implied I would.

I'm also concerned by some boys in my form. I overheard one calling another 'motherfucker'. He hadn't really meant it to come out of his mouth and was quite embarrassed when I spoke to him about it. He explained that he'd been watching the Godfather. I suggested that it was an eighteen for a reason and that he ought to remember that he's a year seven, not Al Pacino.