Grading math is by far easiest. It's fairly straightforward: you're right, or you're wrong, and you dock the appropriate amount of points if it's wrong.
Grading math is also pretty boring...most of the time. To be fair, I will say that it's pretty amusing to giggle with the girl doing Algebra when she's been blonde about something, or to be exasperated with my lawyer-wannabe brother as he grumbles about decimals and finds a loophole for every rule.
My favorite, though, is my brothers' English homework.
They've been going through abbreviations recently--Jan., Wed., cm., tsp., etc. and one particular exercise was to write the full version of at least thirty abbreviated terms.
Well, both boys have trouble with 'kg', 'km,' and 'kw'. One boy - I won't say who - has a pretty stereotypical misspelling: "kilagrams," "kilameters," "kilawats."
The other boy...man, he cracked me up. First, understand, this is spelled like a hick-pronunciation of the word, and that coming from this brother, who has enunciation issues...ironic genius at its finest. Secondly, it was probably the most creative misspelling I'd ever seen. Ever. And I've seen a lot from these two.
Ladies and gentlemen, coming to a horror movie show near you, I give you:
killergrams!
killermeters!
aaaand
killerwates!
While my parents are paying me a small fee for the grading work, this is the real reason I'm doing it. The things you find in their schoolwork that throw you for a loop and make you laugh with disbelief...well, they're pretty much irreplaceable. And absolutely hilarious.
I thought the stories about the giant spider, boy and dog were pretty funny: in one of them, the spider eats the boy and dog; in the other, all three get nailed by a steamroller. But maybe I need to re-evaluate my definition of funny...and maybe I'm learning more from those boys' schoolwork than they are. Meep.
Hehe.... that's pretty funny, Anna. :-D
It's a good thing Emmaline just left the room--otherwise she might've tried to give me artificial respiration when I died laughing.
*grin*