Gary_in_Indiana
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<font color="blue"> My daughter is a high school band director </font>
"And then one time... at band camp..."
All kidding aside, Don... I love the water balloon story. That's great stuff. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
That story reminded me of my son 'getting in trouble' with less than a month remaining in his senior year of HS.
He goes in to a study hall which is being monitored by a substitute teacher. As they had done pretty much all semester there, the only four seniors there moved some desks together in one corner and quietly began to play euchre (it's a card game, for those not familiar). The substitute, knowing no one, challenges them and tells them to put their desks back, etc.
It should be noted here that these four pretty much represented the cream of the senior class. My son was class president and captain of the basketball team. The other three were, respectively, student council president and top female athlete at the school, the valedictorian and baseball team captain and lastly the salutatorian of the class. Needless to say, this was not a problem group. They politely tried to explain this was something which had a long-standing approval for these four seniors who were there primarily because there were hardly any more honors classes any of them could take and they had a free hour.
Nonetheless, this substitute was out to prove some point and the power play began. "I'm in charge here and if you don't like it you can leave!" My son, cursed with an Irish temper from both parents and a Dutch-German bull-headedness going back to at least my father's father, got up and headed for the door. "Where do you think you're going?"
"You told me to leave and I'm leaving. If you need me, I'll be in the library," and off he went despite her protests. After arriving at the library, he decided he'd better go and tell the dean of boys (who was also his basketball coach) what had happened so as to pre-empt any surprises. Before he left the library, he tells the people at the desk that if anyone comes in looking for him to tell them he's gone to the office.
He finds the dean of men in the principal's office along with the guidance counselor and dean of women. What are those four doing but playing euchre! He explains what happened and they all kind of chuckle at the irony of it all. The dean of women has to leave and invites my son to take her place in the game.
After a couple of hands, the substitute teacher arrives at the office. Standing at the doorway, she tells the dean of men about the errant student who left her study hall and can't be located (she hadn't asked anyone at the library). She's then motioned on in bye the principal only to see this wayward lad as the principal's partner in the card game and then hear, "We're already aware of what happened, thank you. You can go back to your classroom."
I guess there's something to be said for being one of "the good kids" after all. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
"And then one time... at band camp..."
All kidding aside, Don... I love the water balloon story. That's great stuff. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
That story reminded me of my son 'getting in trouble' with less than a month remaining in his senior year of HS.
He goes in to a study hall which is being monitored by a substitute teacher. As they had done pretty much all semester there, the only four seniors there moved some desks together in one corner and quietly began to play euchre (it's a card game, for those not familiar). The substitute, knowing no one, challenges them and tells them to put their desks back, etc.
It should be noted here that these four pretty much represented the cream of the senior class. My son was class president and captain of the basketball team. The other three were, respectively, student council president and top female athlete at the school, the valedictorian and baseball team captain and lastly the salutatorian of the class. Needless to say, this was not a problem group. They politely tried to explain this was something which had a long-standing approval for these four seniors who were there primarily because there were hardly any more honors classes any of them could take and they had a free hour.
Nonetheless, this substitute was out to prove some point and the power play began. "I'm in charge here and if you don't like it you can leave!" My son, cursed with an Irish temper from both parents and a Dutch-German bull-headedness going back to at least my father's father, got up and headed for the door. "Where do you think you're going?"
"You told me to leave and I'm leaving. If you need me, I'll be in the library," and off he went despite her protests. After arriving at the library, he decided he'd better go and tell the dean of boys (who was also his basketball coach) what had happened so as to pre-empt any surprises. Before he left the library, he tells the people at the desk that if anyone comes in looking for him to tell them he's gone to the office.
He finds the dean of men in the principal's office along with the guidance counselor and dean of women. What are those four doing but playing euchre! He explains what happened and they all kind of chuckle at the irony of it all. The dean of women has to leave and invites my son to take her place in the game.
After a couple of hands, the substitute teacher arrives at the office. Standing at the doorway, she tells the dean of men about the errant student who left her study hall and can't be located (she hadn't asked anyone at the library). She's then motioned on in bye the principal only to see this wayward lad as the principal's partner in the card game and then hear, "We're already aware of what happened, thank you. You can go back to your classroom."
I guess there's something to be said for being one of "the good kids" after all. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
