Classroom eccentricities.

With my kids where I'm teaching, I:

1) make them roll dice to determine where they'll sit for class, and always tell them it's to "prevent build-up of negative energy in the room", which they'd notice if they taught a lot

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2) have them write their weekly in-class essays on old coffee-stained scrap paper, and thank them for humoring my "environmental neuroticism", as well as reducing the large stack of paper for reuse that I have heaped up on my kitchen table.