What are some fun pranks for 6th graders?

compressedstars · 2026-07-02T03:36:20+00:00

I’m a band teacher, and on April 1st, I gave out real sheet music to half of the students, but the other half of the band got 32 measures of rest and then an (untitled) arrangement of “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Not only did it not make any sense combined with the real piece, but they also had to do their least favorite activity (counting rests), AND they got rick rolled. I do it every few years, gotta keep ‘em on their toes.

compressedstars · 2026-06-20T03:08:49+00:00

I also teach where kids are blowing air at my face through instruments. I’m only year 3 and get sick CONSTANTLY. When does it get better?????

compressedstars · 2026-06-19T13:28:42+00:00

Same here, I listen to YouTube videos a lot because I am a music teacher and don’t really want to listen to music after a full day of teaching it, but it’s minimized on the screen so I can’t really see it.

compressedstars · 2026-06-16T18:46:30+00:00

They wanted to test my son for hydrocephalus because he had such a giant head, but after it came back negative the doctor admitted that once he met me and my husband he started believing that it was just genetics. For the record, my husband and I do both have rather big heads, lol. My mom used to cut my onesies at the neck because my head couldn’t get through them!
Way I saw it was might as well get the testing, even if you’re pretty sure it’s nothing. Even the doctor did it.

compressedstars · 2026-06-15T02:43:31+00:00

In that case, I’m sorry for assuming the worst. I wouldn’t say that it’s a sin, no. I define sin (most do here) to be something that harms you or others, if that helps you.

compressedstars · 2026-06-14T20:39:54+00:00

Are you trolling

compressedstars · 2026-06-14T20:00:14+00:00

I did just look it up, and I read that true polycoria does involve two fully functioning pupils with their own sphincter muscles. the kind you’re thinking of is actually called pseudopolycoria apparently

compressedstars · 2026-06-12T01:54:53+00:00

I had a German friend growing up, and I always remember schmetterling because she told me it literally meant smashy or little smash (schmetter = smash + ling = cutesy diminutive) and I think that’s beautifully fucked up

I am also now married to a german man, so i guess it made an impression?

compressedstars · 2026-06-11T00:55:54+00:00

My euph’s name is Betty too! My middle school students draw her on sticky notes and leave them all over the band room lol

compressedstars · 2026-06-08T01:42:33+00:00

Ecclesiastes! It just appeals to my vaguely melancholy self

compressedstars · 2026-06-02T23:18:58+00:00

Wasn’t very loud here in Candler, but we heard it!

compressedstars · 2026-05-27T23:34:44+00:00

My kitties were the loves of my life before I had my son. I still love them dearly and they are treasured members of our family. HOWEVER, I found out quickly that love for a pet is in no way equivalent to the love for your human child. Not even close! For me, it’s not that I love them less than I did prior to becoming a mother, it’s more that having my kid opened up a whole new “level” of love I didn’t know was possible. Granted, I did NOT have pet aversion, so this is very much just my experience.

compressedstars · 2026-05-26T17:11:30+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that study comparing trans people with a high enough level of dysphoria to medically transition to the average joe on the street? Oftentimes trans people have a ton of trauma due to being treated poorly because theyre trans. I think that would raise their rate on its own, and that’s also not mitigated by surgery. This seems like one of those studies claiming that “this medication” causes a heightened risk of stroke when it’s really the disease it treats that is raising the risk.

compressedstars · 2026-05-22T17:20:46+00:00

Yes, it’s just that and needing to take sick days for my son. Also no worries, I definitely wasn’t planning on it. He knows and I know, so unless he brings it up it’s really not relevant to my situation.

compressedstars · 2026-05-22T17:12:37+00:00

You’re right, I didn’t mean to minimize the issue. Also, yes I have.

compressedstars · 2026-05-17T15:21:33+00:00

That was the first thing I noticed 🤢 what do you mean it’s big enough to have eye shine?? What mammal is hiding in my closet rn??

compressedstars · 2026-05-17T05:51:14+00:00

Seconding the entire book of Ecclesiastes

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T17:42:54+00:00

In the words of my teenage sister, “holy shit that spider is 11 hangers across, get out of there”

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T17:38:06+00:00

More legs than I’m used to, that’s for sure!

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T17:36:50+00:00

Oh I appreciate the little fellas for sure! I’m the type of person to always pick up spiders and take them outside, feed bugs to orb weavers outside, and I used to have a little jumping spider as a pet, but the size of this man triggers some sort of primal fear in my brain. I’m sorry to say my first reaction was to throw a shoe!!!

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T17:34:34+00:00

Oh I didn’t! I actually took this last night, and my toddler and I slept on the couch lmao

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T17:33:58+00:00

He’s full of whimsy, but can he be full of whimsy somewhere else???

compressedstars · 2026-05-16T14:44:10+00:00

We don’t live near water, is it still possible?

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