This isn't quite humor but....

[HappeetxnR.N.]

I have no idea if this is one of those emails that make there way around, but after reading it if it didn't happen I wish it would. UPDATE: IT IS TRUE Urban Legends Reference Pages: Veterans Return Desks Please take the time to read this, in the end you will understand why. To the Mods, if this belongs somewhere else please move it to where it needs to be.
Thanks,
Craig
School Desks - this should happen in every school

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, there were no desks. They obviously looked around and said, "Ms. Cothren, where's our desk?"
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, same thing. Third period. 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, the 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."

[bigcountrysg]

thats great man.

Not to hi-jack your thread I just want to share a story.

I grew up in a small town where everyday in elementary school we said the pledge of alliegance. Well when I got to Junior high there was no more pledge. Some class rooms didn't even have a flag. I was in Junior High so I didn't think much of it. I got to highschool same thing as Junior high. Then As my Senior year started it dawned on me that all the flags were removed from the class rooms. I asked the Superintendent about this on the second day of school. He said he was not aware of the flags missing. I asked him to go for a walk through the classrooms with me. We walked all classrooms. Sure enough not one flag. The next day I went to the elementary part of the school class started no flag no pledge. Now I just signed my life for 4 years to the Corps. So irrietated I went and talked to the Superintendent again about this and how disturbed I was about it. Well the next day all the classrooms had flags and at 8am every morning the pledge was recited by yours truely over the P.A. system of the school. To this day my school that I graduated from still recites the pledge at 8am in every classroom K-12.

So to hear about a teacher that did something like this is great to me.

[stump0331]

2 great stories, thanks guys

[NOVAJOE105]

That is a great story. It really makes yopu feel good to know that there are people out there who still care and will stand up for what is right and what should be done. Many thanks go out to all of those who are currently serving and have served our country. If it wasn't for these men and women we more than likely would not be a free country and certainly would not be as safe as we are. BC, my hat goes off to you for recognizing and taking action towards the recognition of our country. Not many high school seniors would have the brass to do something like that. Thanks again to all our service men and women.

[payne5757]

Hearing stuff like that is awesome. Its hard to watch all these d@mn liberals everyday cuz it makes u wonder if any redblooded americans are left. These are true americans!

[sea71]

GOOD STUFF FELLAS!!

[straycat]

Awesome stories, both of them.

Gord.