Okay, not the entire class, but SO embarrassing!
Now that I have your attention - my students are now working in small groups on heraldic flags. We're basically finding emblems, students create their own version of the group's emblem, personalize the background, but the group has a color scheme. So they're learning about heraldry and the images used during the medieval and Renaissance times (art history) while learning about pattern, color, variations on a theme, and various media we're using.
Three boys wanted lions rampant for their group emblem - lions rampant meaning lions standing on the two hind feet, with the front feet in the air. I brought them in my office for a google image search. They selected several images for me to go to the page and save the image, then print. We went through several images, and suddenly one page turned to a page of porn!!!!!!! I swear, it was a perfectly innocent image of a standing lion in the search - but open the image and bam, naked women and men all over the place!!!!!!! ACK!!!!! The three boys started laughing, and I tried to close the tab - which of course took several clicks as I'm yelling "go away, go away" at the page - and of course the kids (8th graders) thought I meant them so they left the office, all falling over laughing!!!!!
I told them I didn't mean them, they came back in, one kid said, "It's okay Ms. Schwartz, we won't tell anyone about this" - I laughed and said that was the weirdest thing ever, and we agreed we wouldn't talk about it again. Of course, they continued to laugh, but we managed to print out several lions rampant and they went back to work.
OMG, the only thing worse would be if my pants fell down in class, that's how embarrassing it was!!!!!!!
I did tell the principal - who asked what have you done now, Ms. Schwartz - and he had me report it to the DOE help desk. It was just SO embarrassing!
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