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between boot camp and actual battle in a minimal

way.
But on the lighter side of Zoom sessions, I

have had some funny things happen that others
might have experienced as well. I thought I'd share

some of them.

The standard protocol for students is to keep
their microphone off unless they are speaking.

Most of the time, a student will hold the spacebar as
they talk. When they release it, their microphone

goes back to mute. If a student wants to speak for
quite a while, they will hit the unmute button. But

then they must remember to mute their mic when
they finish.

One day, I had a student who was asking
about a problem from the homework. Since he and

I were discussing it back and forth, he had unmuted

his microphone. When we finished with his
question, he forgot to hit mute again. At that point,

he turned, and though you couldn't see anyone else,
you could tell he was speaking to a child. He said,

"I'm sorry. Daddy is really busy right now. You
will have to wipe your own bummy."

In one class session, one young lady talked on
her phone the whole time. That class was small

enough so she showed on everyone's screen. A

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