Monday, July 20, 2009

The Value of Eight Minutes

We are working on essays in class. Toward the end of the period, I notice Wanda Pierson out of her seat, talking to her friend on the other side of the classroom.


Me: "Go work on your essay, Wanda."

Wanda: "But you said we had eight more minutes!"

Me, oblivious, then exasperated: "Oh, K, I--wait, what!? By all means, talk over there for eight minutes!"


Point! I wish I could go back in time and swat myself on the back of the head whenever I stopped working fifteen minutes before the bell.

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