What happened when the teacher caught a student's note in class?

I used to teach high school Spanish, and I confiscated a note from a 15-year-old sophomore once.

I told the girl I was going to read it in front of the class as I unfolded it, and walked to the front of the room.

She was begging me not to, like her life depended on it.

I later realized why.

I had no intention of actually reading it to the class, but I wanted to make her sweat. I was going to make up some stuff like,

I have the best Spanish teacher in the world, blah, blah, blah, and I was absolutely taken aback

and stood there with a blank look on my face as I read the first sentence in my head.

Hey girl, you ain't going to believe this, but I'm pregnant again.

She already had a one-year-old. I locked eyes with her, and she gave me this incredibly guilty

look, but she was relieved that I wasn't actually going to read it to the class. I was

absolutely speechless. When my mother was a teacher in an inner city middle school, she found a note left behind in a

classroom that said something along the lines of, I really hope I can get pregnant by the age

of 16 because I don't want my child to have an old mom.

I just remember asking myself what was wrong with the world.

Not intercepted, but I found it after a lab

where two guys would always sit. Pretty sure they both wrote it because it was on the back of one of

their lab sheets that they left behind. Person one had written women's chests. Person two wrote,

Yeah, I know. Such a simple exchange, almost poetic, really. Fifteen years ago, when I was a new

teacher, I confiscated a note that was a caricature of me with one hand down my pants and the other

pushing a finger up my nose. I still have it. It was really funny. I wish I'd also had a picture

of the absolute look of terror on the sixth grader's face when I confiscated it.

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