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January 18, 2006
David and Gollith
Teaching kids is funny. Where else can you get the one-two combination of unfortunate smells and dead pan humor rolled into one on a given day? If you want to experience it for yourself, walk into any elementary classroom. If you're lucky you'll get hit in the head with a piece of clay. Speakig of which, I mediated a fight today between an on-again off-again 4th grade bully and a small 5th grader. It was David & Gollith come to life in the hallway. The fight, as far as I can tell, was over a basketball and the ever changing foul line. When the bully tried to flex his muscle by slapping he ended up getting popped with a jab and upper cut by a kid 1/2 his size. When I confronted all involved the bully broke down and cried saying anything to get out of trouble. David, on the other hand, owned up to his talent for punching and apologized with a true heart.
Afte many tears and a long conversation I asked the wanna-be bully what he learned from the whole experience. At first he came up with some regurgitated line about making better choices. When I said,"Uh huh...what did you really learn?" he said, "That kids littler than you can really hit hard."
Posted by Stanks at January 18, 2006 07:06 PM