My Fourth Grade Experience
I would like to tell you a true story about my fourth grade experience.
When I was in the fourth grade, the teacher would write spelling words on the blackboard Monday and give us a spelling test Friday. When we finished the test we would exchange papers and correct each others papers. The teacher would read each childs name and the corrector would read the test score. Every week I would get one or two words correct...but most of the time I got no words correct. Every time my score was read in class, I would feel ashamed of my failure. In my home, no one ever asked me if I had homework. My best friend couldn't go out to play until she studied. But in my home.. no one ever asked.. so I never studied. I didn't know how to study. One day I decided... I would never feel ashamed of my spelling scores again. I started to write the spelling words 100 times each. When Friday came. .I took the test. I got all the words correct. The teacher asked me to stay in at recess time. She asked me if I had copied off of someone's spelling test. I told her no. She asked me why I got all the words correct. I answered that I wrote each word 100 times. She asked me who told me to do that. I answered that no one had told me to do it...I decided to do it myself.
I told this story often to my children. Now, I tell my grandchildren. It's a story that really reveals who I am. It sometimes takes me awhile to catch on, but when I do...watch out world, cause here I come... I can't do anything mediocre. I am the very best that I can be...today. One of the last things I remember my father saying to me is..."you will never know how proud I am of you." Not to sound conceited or anything...but...I think I am proud of me, too.
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