phoenixgirl
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Diamonds have been on my brain this week, so it seems I've had more diamond ring related stories than usual.
Yesterday a student in one of my low-level English classes asked at the end of class if I was married. This happens every so often, despite the fact that I told them I was married in my introductory letter at the beginning of the year and that they call every teacher "Miss" no matter what her marital status is (which is the opposite of growing up in New Jersey, where we called every teacher "Mrs." regardless, unless she made of point of tellling us to do otherwise). It was the end of the day and class had more of a relaxed feel than usual, so as other kids were saying, "Yes, duh, she told us that!" I said, "Didn't you notice my shiny bling?" The kids (10th graders) loved that.
This week I answered the thread of ring trends by listing every coworker's wedding set that I could think of. Well the next day I was buying my lunch in the teacher's line in the cafeteria, and I noticed that the cashier, an immigrant to this country, has the nicest set I've seen at school. It looked real and very similar to mine but in a white metal -- over one carat diamond solitaire, bar set band with five diamonds.
Then yesterday I noticed that the editor-in-chief of the paper, a student with whom I have a more coach-like than teacher-like relationship, was wearing a large solitaire with a thick white metal band. Her father died two years ago, so I thought maybe she was wearing her mother's set. I asked her about it, and she said that she had bought the fake rings to freak her brothers out (but then why wear them to school -- her brothers have graduated). She was wearing the solitaire on the bottom so I told her that the band is usually worn below the solitaire.
I hope her story is true, although a lot of our students wear engagement rings and call themselves engaged, so it could be some kind of symbol she concocted with her boyfriend to indicate that they wish they were married or something. Sometimes the kids even call each other husband and wife. My friend had a student last year who signed her boyfriend's last name instead of her own. Growing up in NJ, I was definitely considered young to be getting married at 24. None of my other friends from home have gotten married or engaged at this point (26). We definitely didn't dream about getting married while still in high school. But in Virginia people seem to marry younger, and the kids seem to be itching to do so.
Yesterday a student in one of my low-level English classes asked at the end of class if I was married. This happens every so often, despite the fact that I told them I was married in my introductory letter at the beginning of the year and that they call every teacher "Miss" no matter what her marital status is (which is the opposite of growing up in New Jersey, where we called every teacher "Mrs." regardless, unless she made of point of tellling us to do otherwise). It was the end of the day and class had more of a relaxed feel than usual, so as other kids were saying, "Yes, duh, she told us that!" I said, "Didn't you notice my shiny bling?" The kids (10th graders) loved that.
This week I answered the thread of ring trends by listing every coworker's wedding set that I could think of. Well the next day I was buying my lunch in the teacher's line in the cafeteria, and I noticed that the cashier, an immigrant to this country, has the nicest set I've seen at school. It looked real and very similar to mine but in a white metal -- over one carat diamond solitaire, bar set band with five diamonds.
Then yesterday I noticed that the editor-in-chief of the paper, a student with whom I have a more coach-like than teacher-like relationship, was wearing a large solitaire with a thick white metal band. Her father died two years ago, so I thought maybe she was wearing her mother's set. I asked her about it, and she said that she had bought the fake rings to freak her brothers out (but then why wear them to school -- her brothers have graduated). She was wearing the solitaire on the bottom so I told her that the band is usually worn below the solitaire.
I hope her story is true, although a lot of our students wear engagement rings and call themselves engaged, so it could be some kind of symbol she concocted with her boyfriend to indicate that they wish they were married or something. Sometimes the kids even call each other husband and wife. My friend had a student last year who signed her boyfriend's last name instead of her own. Growing up in NJ, I was definitely considered young to be getting married at 24. None of my other friends from home have gotten married or engaged at this point (26). We definitely didn't dream about getting married while still in high school. But in Virginia people seem to marry younger, and the kids seem to be itching to do so.
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