FREEDOM
Hello All,
This is a repost from a friend. I just had to place it on my page…….
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 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 and there were no desks. They obviously looked around and said, 'Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?'
And she said, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'
'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.'
And she told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the
classroom, second period and third period netted the same results. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom.
The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at
this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room.
And she says, 'Throughout the day no one has really understood how you
earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily.' She said, 'Now I'm
going to tell you.'
Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and
as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school
desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they had
finished placing those desks; those kids for the first time I think perhaps
in their lives understood how they earned those desks.
Martha said, 'You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for
you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here
responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they
paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it.'
My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have
are freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are because of
ordinary people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more
than life itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the
Robinson High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me
to enjoy this great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better
love enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid
values and principles that made us a great nation.
'We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave'
Remember our Troops...
Be Safe,
Reach
This is a repost from a friend. I just had to place it on my page…….
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 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 and there were no desks. They obviously looked around and said, 'Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?'
And she said, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn them.'
They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'
'No,' she said.
'Maybe it's our behavior.'
And she told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
And so they came and went in the first period, still no desks in the
classroom, second period and third period netted the same results. By early afternoon television news crews had gathered in Ms. Cothren's class to find out about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of the classroom.
The last period of the day, Martha Cothren gathered her class. They were at
this time sitting on the floor around the sides of the room.
And she says, 'Throughout the day no one has really understood how you
earn the desks that sit in this classroom ordinarily.' She said, 'Now I'm
going to tell you.'
Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it, and
as she did 27 U.S. veterans, wearing their uniforms, walked into that
classroom, each one carrying a school desk. And they placed those school
desks in rows, and then they stood along the wall. And by the time they had
finished placing those desks; those kids for the first time I think perhaps
in their lives understood how they earned those desks.
Martha said, 'You don't have to earn those desks. These guys did it for
you. They put them out there for you, but it's up to you to sit here
responsibly to learn, to be good students and good citizens, because they
paid a price for you to have that desk, and don't ever forget it.'
My friend, I think sometimes we forget that the freedoms that we have
are freedoms not because of celebrities. The freedoms are because of
ordinary people who did extraordinary things, who loved this country more
than life itself, and who not only earned a school desk for a kid at the
Robinson High School in Little Rock, but who earned a seat for you and me
to enjoy this great land we call home, this wonderful nation that we better
love enough to protect and preserve with the kind of conservative, solid
values and principles that made us a great nation.
'We live in the Land of the Free because of the brave'
Remember our Troops...
Be Safe,
Reach
posted by Reach | 11:56 AM
4 Comments:
Very good post, made me tear up a little bit.
Your voice is important on these issues. We here so much noise about the celebs and their nonsense and we glorify (for ratings) mass killers. To acknowledge the honestly brave and good among us is not common, but very necessary. Thanks for doing it your way.
Great post...so true about the brave- our country wouldn't be our country without their bravery.
this is really neat. thanks for posting it. I am laughing at your "be safe" at the end of your posts because although it is an endearment and wish for all, a friend of mine who on SWAT and was in Iraq, ends every email with "Be Careful". I don't know what my point is, but I just noticed it.
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