Now is the time that, after all the worry on the East Coast about Hurricane Irene and power outages and flooding, that one must prepare themselves for the word that many kids fear the most in the English language- SCHOOL. A young student must go out to Target or Staples or WalMart or whatever place of your choice and buy binders and pencils and markers and a brand new, fresh-smelling book bag, which they dread to think that they must drag to school.
I, for one, although ranting about short vacations, like school! I actually enjoy it the majority of the time, between seeing my friends and learning something new and seeing my teacher every day. But I'm in the minority.
Of course uniforms and rules and bossy teachers that are ALLOWED to order you around do not help the situation whatsoever. Some kids either get no discipline at all at home, in which case they don't know that these instructions should be followed, or sometimes rules ARE enforced at home, and kids want to just let loose since their parents aren't around to scold them. But when the privilege of slacking off is suddenly taken AWAY from them, school does seem as fun. In fact, they'd MUCH rather stay home.
Which is part of the reason I don't understand out of school suspensions. What percentage of the kids that get suspended do you ACTUALLY think go home and sit in their room thinking about what they've done wrong and how they plan to do it differently in the future? Very few, I can tell you that.
This was more a random post.....I felt like this was necessary since i haven't done this in several days (in my defense, the hurricane taking out the power didn't help me AT ALL).
Thanks for reading!!
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