[Swiftwater Gazette] Elle, you style?

[Rik Sandberg]

Ha ha, Good luck with that. the Messiah would probably have you arrested for
radical teabagger activity.

Rik

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, elle <ragdollelle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Ed.
>
> How about sending it to Obama.
>
> elle
>
> --- On *Tue, 11/10/09, Ed Kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ed Kroposki <ekroposki at charter.net>
> Subject: [Swiftwater Gazette] Elle, you style?
> To: "Swift Water" <SwiftwaterGazette at mailman.theswiftwatergazette.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 6:33 PM
>
>
>     *A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . And colleges
>
> Back in September, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social
> studies school teacher at Robinson High School , 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.
>
> 'Ms.. Cothren, where're 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.
>
> 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 deskless 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) War 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.'
>
> By the way, this is a true story. **
> **http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp**
> Please consider passing this along so others won't forget that the freedoms
> we have in this great country were earned by War Veterans. *
>
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