Dungeons and Dragons

I was teaching in a grade 7 classroom the other week where I happened to have a student teacher (huzzah!). When I asked him what the students call him he told me his name and then continued to say that some students call him “Mr. Cool” because he is starting up a Dungeons and Dragons lunchtime club.

Uh… k. To be honest never in my wildest of dreams would I have thought that “Dungeons and Dragons” would be related to a name such as “Mr. Cool” but different strokes for different folks… right?

Anyways, he continued to tell me that he was very excited for the group and was expecting it to be quite popular.

Uh… k. Never in my wildest of dreams would I have thought a Dungeons and Dragons club to be really popular. Am I really that out of touch of what these middle school kids are into… is Fort Nite not the “in” thing anymore… have we already moved on to Dungeons and Dragons?

I went back to the room over the lunch hour at some point to grab something when I noticed this club consisted of the student teacher and just 2 other students. At this point I felt a little bad… I mean he was genuinely excited for the group. But this did not get him down… he was quite certain that the low attendance was due to him not putting a message in the announcements.

The following day I was back at the school in a new classroom. And guess what came up on the announcements?

“Do you like dungeons? Do you like Dragons?...” yes the Dungeons and Dragons group announcement had hit the airways… or at least the announcement sheet in the office. And do you know what the class I was in did when they heard about this new group? They cheered. And it wasn’t just like one or two of them in was about half the class that was pumped to play Dungeons and Dragons at lunch. So maybe this student teachers enthusiasm will pay off and he will get his quite popular Dungeons and Dragons group after all.