This time the dog really did eat the homework. And it was the teacher who had to explain it to her students.
Dee Slosser, who teaches at Danbury High School, said Thursday she spent hours trying to piece together six tests ripped to shreds by her dog."He was just trying to absorb a little Shakespeare," she said.
Slosser said she put the advanced English placement tests on a downstairs bench at her home last Friday. She planned to grade them over the weekend and return them to her students on Monday.
Sloopy, her 100-pound Labrador retriever, had other plans. Slosser found the 4-year-old dog with the test papers in his mouth. She chased him and he dropped the papers, but the damage was done.
"I must admit I pushed the panic button. I thought, `What am I going to do? These kids won't want to take this again.' They were sweating blood anyway the first time," she said.
Slosser worked all night Sunday but did manage to piece the tests together and grade them. Her students got a kick out of the bitten-up tests.
"They laughed. They laughed so hard one girl had tears in her eyes," she said.