Fifth Grade: October 22,1985 Comments
in fifth grade
my teacher said
i talked too much
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My god! ! ! ! Poor kid! ! ! One of you (you or teacher) must have been a.........words fail me, though comes to mind.
Your teacher kept you taped up the last 5 weeks of the year? ? ? Oh how awful! !
Yes Kate, things had been escalating between us for some time. Finally she resorted to the nuclear option: mouth adhesive-sealed shut for the rest of fifth grade.
A sublime start with a nice poem, Alana K. You may like to read my poem, Love And Lust. Thank you.
Thank you, Jazib. Sublime? Or perhaps sublimated from bitter experience...: -) I think of all those long hours and endless days in fifth grade, unable to speak, unable to get my mouth open, like a girl in a horror movie, a mute mouthless scarecrow of a girl...: -X
Nicely written memories of childhood, though it hard to digest the feelings of young you that time in that punishment.. hard todigest! ! 10++
Yes, it was hard to digest then, and it's still hard to digest today 30+ years later. Sitting there in class all day long wearing a mask of adhesive tape that physically enforced my silence...
A hard lesson, life is far from fair. Alana, I'm sure during your existence you have learned many more. I am looking forward to more of your poetry.
Darwin, it was indeed a hard lesson. I remember sometimes, sitting there in class with my mouth sealed shut for long hours, I felt like SCREAMING! But I knew I'd be unable to get any words out no matter how I tried. I could only make meaningless animal noises, at best ignored, at worst driving my teacher to tack another day onto my sentence. So I kept silent, with all that SCREAMING bottled up inside of me.
It is really good poem that brings out memory of the childhood. Keep inking Alana.
Thank you. Yes, and to think that by this point in the year - early March - I had already had my mouth taped shut all day long in school a dozen times, and yet things were only beginning to really escalate...
A well articulated narrative piece of poetry, a melancholic train of thought, insightfully penned with conviction. I guess you had it coming too. A lovely poem indeed. Thanks for sharing Alana. Please read my poem MANDELA - THE IMMORTAL ICON.
Well, my mother certainly thought I had it coming. She continued all through that school year to back up my teacher's method of enforcing my silence in the classroom.
Very very sad experiences in your school. the teachers and their relationships with the students. it was horrible. i feel with you. it is good that you are able to write about it now. it will have catharsis effect. write more about your personal experiences and it will free you more and more and make you a healthy and happy person. then learn to forgive. it is my experience.. learning to forgive everything that is and was bad in our lives will help us to grow. i liked this autobiographical poem. write and write. thank you very much. tony
Thank you. It wasn't easy for me to write this piece, but it was cathartic.
Had it coming is not an excuse for poor behavior. No child should be treated like that
Yes, fortunately things have changed. I've seen news stories about teachers getting fired for doing this nowadays.
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I plan to share this with others here. thanks. and i thought i was mistreated (mildly) by a few teachers! ! ! bri ;)