[DeTomaso] Fwd: Veterans msg to kids

[Effie Richards]

Great tribute!  Sadly, .These days the some parents would try to sue the school

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> On Nov 11, 2015, at 12:55 PM, David <adin at frontier.net> wrote:
> 
>   Respect? The right to vote, hell the right to make any decision, the
>   right to speak your mind~ all things you must earn!
> 
>   In September of 2005, a social studies schoolteacher from Arkansas did
>   something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with
>   permission of the school superintendent, the principal, and the
>   building supervisor, she took all of the desks out of the classroom.
>   The kids came into first period. They walked in - there were no desks.
>   "Ms. Cothren, where are 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 replied.
>   "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. Kids called their parents to
>   tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news
>   crews had started gathering at the school 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 desk-less classroom.
>   Martha Cothren said, "Throughout the day no one has been able to tell
>   me just what he or 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) veterans, all in uniform, 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. They went
>   halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting
>   their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. 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. And this teacher was awarded Veterans
>   of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year. She is the daughter of a WWII POW.
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