Absences
Two teachers discuss a chaotic student who's been absent all week; one realizes she misses the stress.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-03-23-absences/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Teacher A: "I'm worried about my student." Teacher B: "The one who cuts his own hair in class and somehow gets yogurt on his quizzes?"
Teacher A: "Yeah, he's been out sick all week." Teacher B: "So absences really do make the heart grow fonder."
Teacher A: "It's like my soul has a chasm where all the stress and frustration should go."