Desk Story

[Motion Camaro]

From Lois Settles:

(A lesson that should be taught in all schools!)

Desks

Back in September of 2005, on the first day of
school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school 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 out of her
classroom. When the first period kids entered
the room they discovered that there were no desks.

Looking around, confused, they asked, "Ms.
Cothren, where're our desks?" She replied, "You can't have a desk until
you tell me what you have done to 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) U.S. 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....
If you can read this,
Thank a teacher .
If you read it in English ,
Thank a soldier *

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[WILMASBOYL78]

Despite the ban on politics...I

[ANDY M]

http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp

[Pat O'Connell]

Fantastic........Thanks for sharing!!!!!!

[GRB]

Many brave men have fought and died for the rights we take for granted. Great story.