Remember how you guys used to always nag me to "use common sense!"
Well, I'm here to tell you that the amount of common sense you have is, at least partially, related to age. There are of course those random exceptions.: students who are ahead of the developmental curve, students who have learned the hard way, and adults who just never developed a healthy amount of it.
I submit to you the following two examples from this afternoon as proof positive that, at least in part, common sense is related to age.
Example A:
After school, at play practice, we had a student pick up a paint can by the inner ring... aka the lid.
Yup.
The lid popped right off and the entire thing fell onto the floor.
Paint everywhere.
On the carpet.
And the kids was shocked.
Example B:
After we had managed to somewhat clean up that mess, thank you SO much to the lovely custodian, we had another incident.
The large set piece had been laid out, on top of newspaper, and painted.
The other teacher and I were in back and when we came out to the front, after all the kids had left, we were greeted with kid-sized, black paint shoe prints all over the commons area.
Someone *student* had walked onto the still-drying set piece and then walked onto the tile floor with their black-painted shoes.
I spent 20 minutes after rehearsal on my hands and knees scrubbing the floor so the custodian wouldn't have to clean up after us again.