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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Back in the day...

...I was a fourth grade school teacher. Today I was cleaning out an old drawer when I found this note. It is too good not to share. To give you some background, I was trying a form of discipline where my kids had to write "lines" whenever they broke our class rules. The line that had to be written was something like, "I will respect others' right to learn." In this case, the student writing was a little girl who NEVER got in trouble. She was quiet, obedient, hard working, a teacher's dream. :) However, this one fateful day, Amanda broke one of our rules. I wanted to overlook it, but I was trying to be consistent. So she had to write "lines" like the rest of them. Here is what she turned in:

I'm pretty sure she was mortified. I know I have vivid memories of those few times I got punished at school. I wish I could show it to her today. Who knows, maybe she reads my blog.

4 comments:

Katie said...

Classic!

I'm no psychiatrist, but...Type A personality??

Karisa said...

Poor girl! So funny!

monika said...

I read your blog! I don't comment, but I think your family is beautiful. I have fond memories of you and your family from hs, and I hope you don't mind that I am a frequent visitor to your blog.
That said, I think that little girl was very clever to be obedient and yet show you just how mortified she was, how unfair she felt it was, and to let you know that she'd learned the lesson!

The Dunhams said...

That is hilarious! I students come up with some pretty funny things too. We could swap some stories.