One More Pop and No Party
A fifth-grade student who loves attention makes a loud pop
The class overreacts, laughing and kicking their feet.
I call the student out, he is grinning proudly, acting puffed up...
until he notices that his teacher has returned.
She says “you have made a mistake. I can cancel tomorrow’s party”
This calms them down for a minute or two.
She says, “If there is another loud pop, the party is cancelled.”
There are two more, because they found balloons.
I keep my mouth shut, because I want them to have their party.
And I made these kinds of silly mistakes when I was in fifth-grade.
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