Not the Only One

I knew I wasn't the only one with funny students.  I was reading a dance magazine today and ran across a little blurb from a dance teacher in Massachusetts.

Not that kind of dance teacherOne day I was shopping at a local mall, when one of my 5-year-old students spotted me. She was with her mother, who was pushing a baby in a stroller. She yanked on her mother’s coat, saying, “Mom! Mom!” but her mother was in a hurry and didn’t respond. When the child pulled again on her coat, the mother stopped abruptly and said, “What?” The child responded, “There is Miss Jo-Anne with her clothes on!” I immediately ran into the nearest store.


Jo-Anne Galavotti
Jo-Anne’s School of Dance
Palmer, MA

If I taught little ones, imagine the stories I'd have. 

Lip Piercing

I have a student who's a little firecracker.  She moved here last year from Wisconsin.  This little girl loves dance and has such a refreshing attitude about practice and classroom etiquette.  She's in 6th grade.  If you weren't looking at her, you'd think you were talking to an adult.

When it's time to change shoes, she likes to go out in the hall, grab her shoes, sit down next to me and talk about what's going on in her life while she puts on her shoes.  Last week, she told me that a girl in her school came to class with a double lip piercing.  Fish hook was showing it off to her friends and my student informs her that she'll never be able to get a respectable job with that thing in her mouth.

Hahaha!  YAY for my student for having common sense and standing up to this girl!

Next question:  Who in their right mind allows their 11 year old daughter get their lip pierced??  And not a tiny little stud, a DOUBLE lip loop!