Consequences

Auz's Language Art class got in a bit of trouble last week. As a result, they had to write a 5 paragraph essay about the consequences of talking.

The assignment was given last week.

It is due today.

Naturally, being his mother's son, he started it last night.

After reading it, and laughing out loud a couple of times, I decided I had to share.

Consequences

By Auz H.

Today in Mrs. McCormick’s L.A. class we got 3 strikes. Strikes, are marks on the board that we get if we talk while the teacher is talking or disrespect a substitute. I know why we got three strikes. It was because we talked a lot. Now I know that our class likes to talk, but this time they forgot that they had two strikes. We hadn’t had a writing assignment in two weeks so that gave Mrs. MrcCormick an idea. She thought that since we usually only have to do a 3 paragraph essay then doing 5 paragraph essay would be terrible.

Now this is pretty fair punishment--if you think of it like the saying about whether the cup of water is half full or half empty. It’s kind of like thinking that if you have to do twice as much your half empty, or saying at least it’s not three times as much or thrice as much whatever you like--as half full. Also, it could be way worse. It could be 5 pages instead of 5 paragraphs. I’m just saying she could have made it way worse. Now some people would say “but that’s totally unfair it should only be a three paragraph essay since there were only three strikes!” Well those people make me mad. Also, she could have made the due date the next day instead of next week.

Sometimes it’s hard not to talk because LA is basically right when we get to school and we feel the need to talk about all the gossip that has happened since the day before. Something we could do to stop this problem is to save the talking for recess. Another main cause of talking, is when Mrs. McCormick is saying something and it jogs your memory of something that happened over the weekend. People think they have to hurry and say it before they forget. A solution to this problem is either to raise your hand and then share it with the class, or they could just write it down on a piece of paper to save for later.

Now I’m going to tell you about why talking can affect both teachers and students. When you talk you interrupt the entire class. Usually this makes everyone else talk. Then it takes around five minutes to quiet down the class. Not only that, but if it’s really noisy then the teacher has to take time having to write down a strike. Also, if it’s your second strike and then you get another ,the teacher has to write down what your extra assignment is and that takes like 6 minutes. Finally, it affects your homework time too and on top of that you get even more homework from the 3 strikes. It would be a lot easier if we just didn’t talk.

I think it’s important to not get strikes ever again. Maybe Mrs. McCormick could put up a “BE QUIET” sign up on the board to remind us not to talk. She could give us a warning by pointing at it. Also, I’ve decided that it would be a good idea to just sit quietly while the teacher is talking. If our class will just be quiet, then this extra homework will not happen again.