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“Finders keepers, losers weepers.” Every little kid lived by this expression. But do you ever remember getting called out of class in elementary school? You were probably really embarrassed. Everyone was staring at you, and everyone was whispering about you. It made you want to cry, right? Well, I was in the exact same position, only with one exception. I actually did something bad, but I didn’t see anything wrong with it. Obviously, the principle did. Nothing bad happened. It's just that because I lived by that expression, I got myself in trouble. It’s not fair that I found it at recess, and the principle gets to take it away from me. I have never done anything wrong before. I’ve never done anything that involved the principle. That’s scary. …show more content…
I waited a few seconds and then I ran to get in line. I pushed my way through and grabbed a hold of Emma’s arm. “Dude, where did you go? I’ve been looking all over for you.” Emma’s voice sounded kind of scarce. “I found this thing and I’m scared. I don’t know whose it is, but I want to keep it.” I showed her the ring. It had a cross on it with a gold covering. “That could mean a lot to someone. You have to turn it into the lost and found.” Emma said, her voice sounding shaky. “No, I can’t. Finders keepers, losers weepers. I’m gonna keep it.” I sounded confident in my voice. I didn’t know what to do with it. When we went inside, I stuffed it into my bookbag and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. What was I? A convicted criminal? I constantly said those words to myself and couldn’t stop thinking about it. “Okay guys, time for us to get on the bus.” I grabbed my backpack and walked out of the classroom and onto the bus. I sat down in my seat and completely blocked out everyone around me. At first, I was afraid, I was petrified. I told myself that I would never ever tell my …show more content…
At around seven o’clock, I heard my mom page me to come downstairs. “I just got a very interesting call from your principal, darling.” At this point, I was in tears. “Mom, I swear I didn’t do anything! Please don’t yell at me! I found it. I didn’t steal it. I promise. Please believe me!” I sobbed and sobbed as I put my hands into my face. I knew that I was going to get the bad end of it. “Sweetheart, I’m not going to yell at you. I understand that you found it. You just have to give it back if it’s hers. She said that it was hers, so just give it up.” My mom sounded subtle, and I started to understand her. “What am I supposed to do?” Just the thought of having to give it back hurt me inside. I know that I didn’t have it for long and that it wasn’t mine, but I found it. “The principal will call you down tomorrow and you can give it to her. Now go upstairs and get some rest.” I turned and walked upstairs to go to bed. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. But when I finally did, I fell
Have you ever witnessed your own teacher shave someone’s hair? Or even assign over 40 assignments when she is absent for “club”, also known as cult activities? If you haven’t, man, have I got some bad news for you. Strap in kiddos, because I’m going to share my experiences with Longleaf’s infamous English teacher capable of striking fear into anyone’s eyes, Ms. Taylor. She is especially ruthless when it comes to classwork, appearance, and your presence in general.
I know you stole it give it back!” “I swear I didn't take it” Ella promised, but her foster mother didn't believe her. As her punishment she heated up a metal rod, and burned her. Finally the day came where her social worker came to the house and told Ella that she would soon be going to live at her Aunt's house, along with her brothers and sisters, and that she would leave in a week once everything is sorted out. Filled of relief, Ella was the happiest she has been in a long time. Later that week Ellas foster dad came home drunk, and accused Ella of stealing his money.”You little shit! You steal a necklace and now my money, you are going to pay for this!” When Ella denied and swore she didnt, he was walking towards her ready to beat her, and she took the bat that they hit her with, and swung at him, and then tried to run. ”Big mistake you stupid kid” he screams and then came at her and beat her to the ground, and wouldn't stop punching her. Ella died later that night due to head trauma. When the police came, they arrested the parents, and found bruises, and burns all over Ella's
A fight breaks out in the cafeteria, a kid smashes a milk carton on another student’s face. One of those “your mom” jokes had gone too far. This does not have to be you. You are just entering Jr. high, it's a new school with new rules and new faces. Think of it as a fresh, new palette, you can paint yourself as whoever you want to be. Whether that be a straight A student or a total flunk.
I am a student aid at John Reith Elementary for an AM/PM kindergarten class, mostly for the PM class. My first week at the school, I only observed the teacher and students. The students were working on their station activities such as reading and playing a game. On this particular day, as the am class was getting to leave, the pm class joined the am class in singing songs together. The pm teacher was absent and a substitute teacher filled in. The pm teacher planned out a detailed lesson plan for the substitute teacher to follow such as name tags for each kid and worksheets. The students were helpful during role call by saying other students name or which student was absent. The teacher assigned table leaders, and the students were in charge of passing out papers and getting the necessary materials such as pencils and crayons. The substitute went over the math lesson, passed out the worksheet, and each student did the worksheet. They read “Chika, Chika Boom Boom” and drew a tree and had lunch time. The AM teacher passed out Ritz crackers to the students that forgot their lunch. If the substitute teachers had a question, she would ask the am teacher. The am teacher kept the students on track if they were doing something wrong. Even though the substitute teacher didn’t follow the lesson plan exactly, she was able to get the students back on track.
One day at the beginning of September, as students filled the classroom, the teacher provided an explanation about honesty. As she spoke, everybody’s ears perked up to her, and she stated that it was time for people to tell the truth because it is the right thing to do. I sat there within my chair in the fourth row, thinking, but immediately knew the action I was going to do. As the class period ended I stood up, and walked straight to the teacher saying “I’m going to be honest with you, and tell you the truth.” The teacher with brown hair stood there smiling ear to ear as I came out. Following this action I walked down the hall, immediately I took out my phone, and texted my parents about my actions. I walked to my next class proud of the honesty I showed, and I did the right thing. Everyone’s papers were similar, as people worked together. The teacher frowned upon all of us, but I stood up by doing the right thing, and told her the truth, and that is how every situation should be resolved. The honesty that I displayed, regarding this issue, hopefully will regain my teacher’s trust, so that she can look for me for honesty of events. The actions that took place were not allowed, but I did not know that at the time, but I told the truth no matter what the consequence may be. One wise man once stated, “work smarter, not harder” so the students had worked together in order to help one another. Upon submitting the assignment, the teacher was very disappointed with the students. I stepped up and told the truth by saying, “yeah I helped other students on their work, and students helped me on my homework”. I knew the consequence might not be what I was looking for, but it was the right thing to do in showing courage to step up right away, and tell the truth. With myself stepping up and stating the truth, others came to me
The reason I got sent to alternative school was because I brought weed to school. I had the weed because some friend gave me the weed on a Saturday and I told my friend I had it. I told him I was going to get rid of the weed because I had no need for it but, he told me to give it to him. I gave it to him on a Thursday morning and he got caught by Officer Massy and Mrs. Early. They came to my class right after 2nd period and took me to Officer Massy’s office. Then he asked me about the incident and I told him everything, I stayed in the front office all day. I believe this placement was fair because now I won’t do this ever again and I’m going to learn to make better choices in the future.
It was just like any other day of my life. My mother had conned me into coming to help her out at her job, the Washington Parish Activity Center. Of course I did not want to go down to that old, creepy, cold building after hours. It was a Friday night, and those torturous finals had finally came to an end. Spending the first night of that long, difficult semester at that place was not my plans. Sleeping, eating, and watching television was the kind of night this college student had in mind, but mother had other boring plans for her child. Hearing my mother’s nagging voice was not an option. If I did not come, she would have been complaining from here all the way to China. During that long conversation, she used the famous mother’s line, “I
The day was peaceful and sunny. With days like these, my house was calm. However, at times like these, my mother would come into my room and ask, “Did you fix your grade?” or “Let me see your grades.” Usually when she says those words, I would be frightened. However, today was not the case. My grades were straight A’s with 1 B, so I should be fine. I got a grasp of my laptop with my grades showing, and brought it downstairs for my mother to see.
I am a 7th grader at Marin middle school. All the smiling faces can fool everyone but me. This place isn’t a happy place. In my mind, this is prison. I walk slowly to my first class, “hey guys look, it’s the bastard” says one of my female classmates. Everyone in class starts laughing and I am the only who thinks this isn’t funny. I turn around, sit on my desk and pretend that they are not laughing at me. It is a part of my everyday routine. I am starting to set up my desk with a paper and a pencil. Suddenly, one of the kid next to me just grab my pencil and throw it out of the window. Yeah, school has
I had planned to come to school with a better behavior. When the week was almost over, I ended up getting in trouble again, except worst this time. It all started in P.E. when we had to run laps outside. As I was running, there was a girl who tried to boss me around and tell me what to do. So I got angry and pushed her. She then told the coaches and somehow I ended up in the assistant principal’s office. Once again my blood was boiling, and I was ready to psych out. I was very upset and shamed because the girl lied on me and said I tried to beat her up. As I was waiting in the chair to speak to the assistant principal, I was thinking to myself about how much trouble I was going to be in, when I got home. Minutes later the principal came and talked to me. She first explained to me that I had never gotten in trouble before. After that she gave me a big lecture on what happened between me and the girl. She decided to call my parents and the teacher had to give me a mark in my planner. When I got back in the classroom the teacher wrote the mark and she realized I cut the other note out of the planner. She told me to let me parents see my planner and how I cut the other note out. I had to bring it back signed by my parents. Once I got home, my parents were waiting for me in the living room. Somehow they knew about everything I did. They even knew about the not I cut out my planner. So I did not have to explain anything to them.
When I was in the seventh grade me and My friends were skipping class. Skipping class one day My mom chose to get me from school unanimously. While skipping class in the gym, I was playing basket When I heard my name get called for early dismissal. When I made it to the office, I ashamed of my behavior and ashamed of the fact I embarrass my mom. As a result of skipping I had chores, homework, and in school suspension.
Throughout the last two years here at Pellissippi State Community College, I have had multiple opportunities to discover who I am as a person and what morals/values that I believe in. Furthermore, I have gained the opportunity to job shadow a teacher at Alcoa Elementary school for a total of 65 hours this semester. With that being said, I fully feel like the service was an eye opening experience. Not only did I get to shadow for personal benefit but I got to help a teacher feel less stressed at the beginning of the school year. I have always had a niche for lending a helping hand to others and I think that is ultimately why I landed in the career path of Elementary Education. With that being said, throughout this semester by volunteering I have learned many
It seemed like a normal day when I entered Mrs. A’s AP Language and Composition class, but little did I know that she was going to assign a very important project that was going to take forever. I took my seat and wrote down what was on the board. Then I sat patiently and waited for Mrs. A to come explain what we were doing today. When the tardy bell rang, Mrs. A glided into the room and gave us all a stack of papers. She then proceeded to discuss our upcoming assignment, a memoir. As she explained the very important assignment, I wondered whom I would write about. No one really came to mind to write about and I thought for sure I would never be able to get this thing done on time. I finally decided that I would write in on my mother, Kari Jenson. I knew I would probably put the project off until the very end and do it the weekend before even though it would get on my mom’s nerves. Putting work off was just how I did everything, it worked for me. When I arrived home from school that day, I told mom about the project. I told her I would most likely write it about her and she was overjoyed.
We headed down to the principal’s office. My heart was pounding. It felt like it was pumping more blood then it needed to pump. The time it took to reach the principal’s office felt like a million years. We were in the office and my teacher showed the picture to the principal. There it was; the inevitable. This was bound to happen. How did I not see this coming? Why did I just ignore my noggin? The principal said, “How ignorant! Three days of in-school-suspension.” My life was draining by the second. It felt as if I was thrown into a dark chamber filled with corpses. Now I realized to always listen to the authority. My life lesson learned: Take policies seriously. No matter what you say to get out of situations, policy always comes out first.
I pull up to the kids’ school. They both see me then turn back to what they are doing. I sit in my car in the loading zone stroking the steering wheel telepathically telling my twelve year-old girl, to get her butt over here. She must hear me. Her defeated shoulders lead her shuffling, long-in-her pants body my way. Her face is red with acne and defiance. She opens the passenger-side door. "Mother, would you please get out here and help me get my stuff?" This is not a request. I follow her to the bench...