May 31, 2006

How to make ten minutes of work take two hours

Here's a posting from Emmett. Can you tell that school is winding down and some things are getting a little screwy?

There's this student in my class—we'll use the initial "H"—who hadn't finished some Language Arts homework due to being absent. Our teacher, Mr. Miller, sent H to the School Library to finish it, and for the rest of Language Arts there was no sign of H.

Then we had Social Studies class. Still no H.

We moved to another classroom, Miss Lesko's room, and toward the end of our Health lesson, H finally showed up.

"Where have you been?" Miss Lesko said.

"In the Library. Nobody came and got me."

"What were you doing in the Library?" Miss Lesko said.

"My homework. Mr. Miller sent me there two hours ago."

"It took you two hours to do your homework?!"

"No, I was done in ten minutes."

"So you've been sitting in the Library for an hour and fifty minutes?"

"Well ... yes."

"Why didn't you just come back to Mr. Miller's room?"

"I didn't want to get in trouble."

"In the Library, were you reading?"

"Well ... no."

H was just sitting there.

All I can say is: H, YaGoof!

P.S. This isn't the first time that this happened with H.

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