Today, I learned a new activity students do to make each other crazy; it seems as though "pantsing" and knocking a kid's books on the floor have been left behind for good.
Before first period one of my students was talking about "nuggeting." I must have looked confused because he asked me if I knew what it meant (that was a big negative, all my classmates used to do was tell people that their socks were untied...). Of course then they started talking amongst themselves about how maybe they should give me a little introduction to nuggeting.
Once they got distracted, my co-op explained to me that nuggeting is when a student takes everything out of another student's backpack, turns it inside out, and then puts everything back in. Obviously when the bell rings the student then comes back to grab their things only to find this "nugget" of a bookbag. Since they can't just pick it up now that the straps are inside, they're stuck hulking this big clunky sack around school until they get a chance to turn it right side out.
Now I have to admit, I did chuckle a little; the mental picture was just too funny. But I guess students got really fast at it and it became a huge problem at the school. It was bad enough where a student could walk across the room, come back 30 seconds later and they'd have a nugget.
Like every high school fad, this one eventually died down. But I can't help but wonder what the students will come up with by the time I have a classroom!
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