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The desks
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This teacher gave a very good lesson to her students. This account is true, as verified by snopes.com.
The Desks
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a
social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did
something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent,
the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of
the classroom.
The kids came into first period and there were no desks. They obviously
looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?" And she said, "You
can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
"No," she said.
< BR>"Maybe it's our behavior."
And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the
classroom. Second period, same thing, third period too. By early afternoon
television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about
this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom.
The last period of the day Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at
this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says,
"Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that
sit in this classroom ordinarily." She said, "Now I'm going to tell you."
Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as
she did 27 U.S. Veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school
desks in rows, and then t hey stood along the wall. And by the time they had
finished placing those desks, those kids, for the first time I think perhaps
in their lives, understood how they earned those desks.
Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you.
They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly
to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price
for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it."
Sometimes we forget that the freedoms we have are
freedoms not because of celebrities or politicians, but because of ordinary
people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more than life
itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the Robinson High
School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to enjoy this
great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better love enough to
protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid values and
principles that made us a great nation.
"We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave."
Please remember our troops, members of our Armed Forces, not just the ones enlisted today, but all the Soldiers, Seamen, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guard who have served and are still serving from the time of the beginning of this great nation.
Please feel free to copy this epistle and pass it on to your friends.
The Desks
Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a
social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did
something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with permission of the school superintendent,
the principal and the building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of
the classroom.
The kids came into first period and there were no desks. They obviously
looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?" And she said, "You
can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
"No," she said.
< BR>"Maybe it's our behavior."
And she told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the
classroom. Second period, same thing, third period too. By early afternoon
television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about
this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom.
The last period of the day Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at
this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room. And she says,
"Throughout the day no one has really understood how you earn the desks that
sit in this classroom ordinarily." She said, "Now I'm going to tell you."
Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and as
she did 27 U.S. Veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school
desks in rows, and then t hey stood along the wall. And by the time they had
finished placing those desks, those kids, for the first time I think perhaps
in their lives, understood how they earned those desks.
Martha said, "You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for you.
They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here responsibly
to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they paid a price
for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it."
Sometimes we forget that the freedoms we have are
freedoms not because of celebrities or politicians, but because of ordinary
people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more than life
itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the Robinson High
School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me to enjoy this
great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better love enough to
protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid values and
principles that made us a great nation.
"We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave."
Please remember our troops, members of our Armed Forces, not just the ones enlisted today, but all the Soldiers, Seamen, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guard who have served and are still serving from the time of the beginning of this great nation.
Please feel free to copy this epistle and pass it on to your friends.
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