A Middle School Moment

I glanced up to check on my students who were finishing up some research and noticed something was wrong. The computer monitor in my direct line of sight had a tiled image of a very naked woman on it.

My head couldn’t compute what I was seeing. I was at work, in the school library, with my 6^th grade class. How did the naked woman get there? And then she was gone, replaced by some sort of Word document. So maybe I didn’t see it. But I did see it. I knew I did.

“Who is that? Hey, come here!” I yelled.

“What are you working on?” I asked.

“Oh, that’s my science article,” he replied.

“No,” I demanded, “ what’s behind the science article?”

“I didn’t do that,” he replied, “someone else made that my desktop background."

“You gotta log out and get out of here!”

He smirked.

I restated, “Get out!”

He logged out and of course She reappeared, in all her glory, on the computer monitor. I covered what I could with a piece of paper before gathering my wits and turning off the monitor. Another teacher escorted him to the vice principal’s office.

I don’t really know what my class was doing during our 6o second exchange, but I’m pretty sure they were well aware of what was going on.

I turned around.

“Anyone else need some help?”

What a middle school moment it was. So glad it’s Friday.