Submitted by Charleston Voice
Dec. 5, 2004
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My older son loves school, but his younger brother absolutely hates it. One weekend he cried and fretted and tried every excuse not to go back on Monday.
Sunday morning on the way home from church, the crying and whining built to a crescendo. At the end of my rope, I finally stopped the car and explained, "Honey, it's the law. If you don't go to school, they'll put Mommy in jail." He looked at me, thought a moment, then asked, "How long would you have to stay?"
My daughter's 5th grade class had been studying astronomy. One morning at breakfast she announced, "On Friday we're having a quiz on the moon." That's when her little brother piped up, saying, "Are you gonna let her go, Mom?"
30 years ago
30 YRS AGO: Miss Barton receives an apple from an anonymous student and shows it to her fellow teachers.
TODAY: Ms. Barton receives a package from an anonymous student and shows it to the bomb squad.
30 YRS AGO: Class clown, Eddie Davis, is caught reading Playboy.
TODAY: Mrs. McMahon, the art teacher, is caught posing for Playboy.
30 YRS AGO: Nurse Tucker treats the fifth grade's first case of whooping cough.
TODAY: Nurse Tucker treats the fifth grade's first case of morning sickness.
30 YRS AGO: Each class begins with Show and Tell.
TODAY: Each class begins with Search and Frisk.
30 YRS AGO: A Ninth grader is caught cheating on a pop quiz.
TODAY: Ninth grader is caught cheating on his common-law wife ... with one of his teachers ... in the backseat of her lover's car.
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