Snort! This thread reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in a long, long time.
When I was in 8th grade, we were all in English class. Our teacher (not the most kid-friendly teacher I've ever met) gave us an assignment and a noise outside obscured her voice. My friend Mark couldn't hear her and asked me what we had to do. The teacher heard us and assumed we'd been goofing around. We tried to explain, but she wasn't interested.
She told us we had to write a 200 word essay on why you shouldn't talk in class. We wrote:
"Talking in class is a very, very, very...(insert 191 verys) bad thing to do."
We turned in the essays together and she never said a word. Score one for the kids.
Val
