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Ok, so what's the most distracting noise a student has made in your class?

Food/gum smacking. Popping noises made with their mouth.

My father is a music teacher of 30 years. He said that listening to trumpeters play as loud as they can directly in his face has made him go deaf. He also teaches K-12 music, so he gets a different variety of interpretation on how an instrument should sound :P

I can't stand the sound of squeking shoes down the hall. When it rains, it gets even worse!

Ugh. This is an easy one. I'll vote #1 for the old standby of nails on a chalkboard, followed up closely by students saying my name, over, and over, and over, and over.....throughout the day. By the end of the day, I can't even stand the sounds of my own name!

I'm with neesie on this one! After hearing my name repeated thirty times in a period of five minutes, I just about want to change my name, put ear plugs in, or run out of the room screaming. Unfortunately, since all my little ones are three, they'd probably mimic me, which would actually be kinda funny, now that I think about it! ;)

I can not stand the child that whines about everything!

So many of these things are on my list, too, but the ONE most annoying thing for me is what I call "mouth noises!!" The wet, slushy sounds of chewing food or gum...ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't stand the old whine, "That's not fair." I would tell my kids, " You're right, the fair's in Dallas" They would stop and actually think about that one.

Crying. I can't stand crying. There's no crying in my classroom, or I'll declare instant "NAP TIME"!! Everyone put your heads down and go to sleep. There's absolutely no crying unless you are bleeding.

How about the sound of the jack hammer right outside the classroom window? It's always fun to teach when that's happening!

I don't have a student noise, but there is a noise I cannot stand coming from a kids pocket-The ringtone "teenage ears". Apparently, only students are suppose to hear it because the teachers are old, but it literaly goes straight through me. Maybe I am not that old yet or I just know the tricks. idk
I like my name being called-My nickname is tator or Mrs. D. It can be amusing when they call me by my first name because I was the girl scout leader or ss teacher before I was their teacher so it is funny when the other students go "so Wanda is your real name" like Dyer's my spy name or my pen, Mrs. Dyer's not real-right:)

cate7805 said:

I can not stand when a student has used all of the eraser on a pencil but still insists on using it. The metal scraping is like fingernails on a chalk board...or a fork scraped on a plate.