50 excuses for not using humour
1. I tried it once and it didn’t work.
2. Our school is highly academic.
3. The students are already hysterical.
4. I will have to ask my principal first.
5. The children might miss their buses.
6. I’m not dressed for the occasion.
7. I don’t have time for such nonsense.
8. It’s not proper training for the real world.
9. I might get laugh lines.
10. I don’t like comedy.
11. It takes too much preparation.
12. Things are absolutely perfect the way they are.
13. We can’t afford to add this to the curriculum.
14. It’s not in our school code of ethics.
15. I don’t like all these right–brain approaches?
16. I might get calls from irate parents.
17. It could bring on my allergies.
18. We just had the walls painted.
19. I don’t have sufficient background.
20. Since I was miserable in school, they should be too.
21. Can’t we just buy a laugh track?
22. We’re a govt. school, not a private school or vice versa.
23. I laugh only in the privacy of my own home.
24. It’s way too messy.
25. My students have never seen my teeth.
26. Perhaps after I get my master’s degree.
27. I’ll bring it to my committee for discussion.
28. Maybe we’ll try it next year.
29. If start laughing, I won’t be able to stop.
30. It won’t help my students.
31. I’m too old to start laughing now.
32. What do you think school is – a sitcom?
33. What if I lose face?
34. I’d like to read more about it first.
35. Students might assume that life is a big joke.
36. Maybe if I were paid more, I’d reconsider.
37. There’s nothing funny about my classroom.
38. My parents never taught me how.
39. It ‘s not statistically sound.
40. I hear that it’s bad for the bladder.
41. I’m just waiting for the summer vacation.
42. I read that laughter destroys brain cells.
43. My laugh sounds like a Canadian goose.
44. My classroom isn’t big enough.
45. Every time I try, I forget to laugh.
46. I have not been trained well enough.
47. I tend to spend all my time reading lists like these.
{What you think I will write all the 49, why don’t you do some work yourself and write the rest of the two!}
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50 I know to count only till 49 :-)
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