Backside

Being a teacher I hear a lot of excuses for not completing homework. Students often forget to turn the paper over to see that the assignment is continued on the other side of the paper. When checking homework, I approach each student and ask to see their homework. Commonly, I then turn the paper over to see an unfinished assignment.

Shock rolls over the students face, “There’s a back side!?”

I respond with, “Yep.”

“I didn’t realize there was a back side.”

My response is always, “Every piece of paper has a back side. It just matters if it has words on it.”

Then the student gets half credit for the assignment.