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Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2008-09-02 09:07 PM

Bones has trouble
with his fifth grade teacher.

She’s always asking questions
about his family.

“Where’s your father work Billy?”

“I don’t have a father.”

“Where did your mother and father
get married?”

“I think they met in jail
down in Georgia.”

About this time Bones
decides to clam up.

This woman is asking
too many personal questions.

“What was your mother
doing in Georgia?”

Bones doesn’t say a thing.
He just sits there.
The teacher asks more questions.
Bones just sits there.

After this went on for a while,
the teacher starts to cry.
She tells him to go home.

Bobby

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

1 posted 2008-09-03 06:07 AM

Sometimes we do get too personal, but it's usually the opposite where the younger children pour their hearts out...looking for validation.

Thanks for the read~~

M

chopsticks
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since 2007-10-02

Posts 888
The US,

2 posted 2008-09-03 06:45 AM

Robert, you are a shade tree wordsmith.

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-09-03 09:14 AM

Thanks dear M,

Funny how those things stick with a person. I was happy to reduce her to tears.

The next year she left teaching at that school.

Love Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-09-03 09:16 AM

Thanks Chopsticks,

I'm pleased if this little poem worked for you.

Bobby

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2008-09-03 11:40 AM

Hi Bob, this is a sad story, I appreciate the attitude of the teacher crying at the end and the courage of Bones enduring such tough and personal questions...Teaching is both so difficult and meaningful...

thanks

yann

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

6 posted 2008-09-03 12:46 PM

I understand the helpless feeling of this teacher. I have felt this way myself in the face of abuse I knew, in my heart, was going on behind the scenes with children I worked with.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7 posted 2008-09-03 01:03 PM

Thanks Yann,

Some teachers are good, and some teachers are bad. Let's just say she made a lasting impression on Bones. He never forgot, nor forgave her.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 posted 2008-09-03 01:10 PM

Thanks dear Ida,

That teacher left the school, but came back the following year when Bones was in sixth grade, and had a wonderful teacher who believed in him.

The sixth grade teacher had Bones bring in one of his mother's flat buttons, and outfit it with a hair pin, so he could dip it in red paint, and use it to make designs on a piece of construction paper. The old fifth grade teacher came by and examined Bones work. She said:

"Humph, so you finely found something he can do."

Now is that a crappy teacher, or what?

Bobby

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

9 posted 2008-09-07 01:22 AM

That goes beyond a crappy teacher and I have a great thought of what Bones coulda done with that button!

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10 posted 2008-09-07 09:23 AM

Thanks dear Alison,

What a great idea about what to do with the button.

Love Bobby

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