"Do I have something on my head?" a student asked the other morning.
"Besides your hair?" I joked. "I don't see anything."
"Look," he insisted, turning around and pointing to the back of his closely shorn head. I saw what he meant. There was a swoosh of green marker a little below and to the left of his ear.
"How did that get there?" I wondered out loud.
He spat the name of another student like a curse and added that she had done it on their way out of their homeroom.
I promised to speak to her about the incident and asked if he wanted to go to the bathroom and wash it off.
"Can't you just get it off?" he pleaded. "I can't even see it!"
I'm sure my brow furrowed, but I looked around the room and then grabbed some hand sanitizer. With a little squirt and a quick rub, the offending mark disappeared. Just then, the bell rang, and the student went off to his seat to record his homework as I started the class.
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