Like it, but I’d expect the smart kid in the front row. :) Feels like school!

Or maybe the teacher knows he doesn’t pay attention so he thinks putting him in the front will get him to pay more attention to the teacher.

Poor Laura. The attentions of junior high boys are rarely a good thing…at least that’s how I felt back then!

In the third sentence, I think it should be a dash or a colon rather than a semi-colon, but other than that this was awesome =]