Speaking of veterans, I received this message in an email from a teacher friend.?
I thought it was significant enough to share.
This is powerful!
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Subject: Fwd: The right to sit at a desk
>
> This is awesome and so true.
>
> 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 the
> permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building
> supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the
> first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no
> desks.
>
> Looking around, confused, they asked, "Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?"
>
> She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done
> to earned the right to sit at a desk."
>
> They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades."
>
> No," she said.
>
> "Maybe it's our behavior."
>
> She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."
>
> And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third
> period.
>
> Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon, television news
> crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about
> this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The
> final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on
> the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren said, "Throughout
> the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to
> earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this
> classroom. Now I am going to tell you."
>
> At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and
> opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into
> that classroom, each one carrying a school desk . The Vets began placing
> the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand
> alongside the wall.
>
> By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place, those kids
> started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just
> how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
> Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These
> heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up
> to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good
> students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could
> have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it."
Kathy Reel
Librarian Substitute
Owensboro, KY
Kathy502@aol.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Ahern <JanStamper@AOL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:36 pm
Subject: Veteran's Day Books
Hi,
I'm looking for suggestions, particularly picture books that cover Veteran's
Day (fiction or non-fiction). I already use The Wall by Eve Bunting and have
a few other items but I'm looking for some new things to share. Thanks for
any suggestions you might send my way.
Janet Ahern
Teacher/Librarian
Christa McAuliffe Elementary
Sammamish, Washington
_jahern@lwsd.org_ (mailto:jahern@lwsd.org)
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