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posted on Dec 7 @ 5:10pm
My physics teacher is insane. There is no other explanation for this. We did encourage him a bit, yes, but it is originally his fault.
See, on his trimester exam, every other problem involved penguins. Dropping penguins from the top of train cars, throwing them in the air and calculating their velocity on the way down, their waddling velocity, &tc. &tc. It was most odd. So we asked him why, and he had no suitable explanation except that he liked penguins.
Then something happened that I missed, but more or less, he told one of my friends she couldn't come back to class until she taught the Impulse-Momentum Theorem to the penguins. And something about the Society for Physics and Penguins sending him a message saying they needed someone to come to Antarctica and teach that theorem specifically.
Then, before the Mathletes incident he said we must pray to the Penguin God. So we asked him what noise penguins make, so we could make it in homage to the God. He didn't know what noise they make, so he spent a good twenty minutes looking up penguin videos on his computer. He then showed all videos to us, and later e-mailed us more. (He also printed out an FAQ on how penguins keep cool and gave it to the Mathletes, so we could keep cool during competition.)
Later, we acquired a stuffed penguin. We took it to physics class, and saw that it was good. Then we asked our teacher to babysit the penguin during last period. He seemed amenable to this. He took the penguin and played with it and made noises. Then, according to his last period class, he made random penguin noises while writing on the board. Then, he took the penguin to his big rocked that we didn't know actually launched, and began stuffing the penguin into the nose of the rocket for liftoff. Apparently the penguin said it wanted to do this. The penguin was eventually rescued. (Permission from the airport is needed to launch this rocket anyway.) Needless to say, we are never taking the penguin to physics again. It will need therapy.
So, as the current culmination of this, when I logged on to the school computer today, the wallpaper was of a penguin. Because the physics teacher is also the network administrator. And he is bloody crazy.