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>be me
>4th grade
>bring 3 sharpners to school
>friend tells me thats a lot of sharpners
>bring 3 more sharpners the next day
>friend gives me his sharpner to grow my collection
>start collecting more and more sharpners
>go to stationary every week to by more sharpners
>collect about 70 sharpners by the end of the month
>start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner
>english teacher asks for a sharpner
>offer her the bag thinking she’d be impressed
>sees all my sharpners and writes a note to my parents
>only allowed to bring 1 sharpner
>idea.jpg
>make a huge sharpner out of cardboard
>dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint
>display it on my table during the english period
>get sent to the office
fun days
The teacher missed an opportunity to encourage the anon, “Oh anon how kind of you to carry around enough sharpeners to share with those who don’t have any, thank you!” That said 70 is a lot, I just hate when teachers only see the negative side of things and punish kids for stupid reasons.
Teacher saw something they thought was stupid. They made a power play. Saw kid work around it and took it personally. Asserted limited authority.
Being a teacher is a tough job. Thing is, just like with therapy: If you’ve reached the point where you’re going to throw around that authority willy-nilly, you are no longer a leader, you’re a bully. Fuck off and work somewhere else.
Course this may not be the whole story. Could be the kid had been a nuisance for months before this point with the sharpie bag being the excuse a child’s mind would focus on when other behaviors were the real cause.
Yes, you are correct on all points. But even if there were prior issues encouraging words can turn things around, no reason to discourage and frustrate children over something small.
Yeah, it feels that punishments like these are just to force conformance. How dare you do something childishly funny as a child!
I’m pretty sure “ensuring conformance” was listed in the discipline section of the handbook at a school I went to as a kid. They viewed it explicitly as their duty.
Yeah I hate how most teachers treat little boys too