NOW SHE IS A TEACHER!!! …..An American
In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History
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 in her classroom. When the first
period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.
'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?'
She
replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn 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. Kids called their parents to tell them what
was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started
gathering at the school 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 or 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 uniform, 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. They went halfway around the
world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so
you could have the freedom you have. 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.'
By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of
Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the
daughter of a WWII POW.
3 comments:
Your rights are inalienable, that is they cannot be removed and you do not simply "earn" them.
This is not Sparta, a military state.
Shame on this teacher.
The right to sit at a desk is NOT an inalienable right...Where is that right given us and by whom???
Shame on this teacher? You must be a freaking lib, commy!
Your the reason this country is going to hell!
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