Drawing a line and grabbing the seeds!

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A lesson that should be taught in all schools . . . .

and colleges.

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.

'Ms.

Cothren, where're our desks?'



She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell

me how you 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.

Please

consider passing this along so others won't forget that

the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by

U. S. Veterans.















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