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[meganbmoore]

So, discussing various childhood traumas with  fairest1 , (both of ours seem to center around classmates reactions to wallflowers and bookworms) I was reminded of getting in trouble in junior high for going to the school library too much.

Why?  Because my teacher thought I was lying and going to goof off because he didn't believe that I could read 2-3 150-225 page books overnight.  (Homework took an hour to an hour-and-a-half, these were light R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books and the like.  When I had money of my own, I was buying Terry Brooks and Forgotten Realms and the like.  Not exactly great literature, but enough of a difference that most of what the school library had was reading extremely quickly.)

This merant that at least once every few weeks, I was either finishing what (if any) homework I had for the day while I was at school when the other students were reading, or I was rereading what I'd checked outt he day before.

Comments

[anatomiste.livejournal.com]

The only detention I got in middle school was for being late to the class after lunch--because I'd spent lunchtime in the library and had got so caught up in what I was reading that I didn't notice the time passing.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I got detention exactly once. The lunchroom was in a separate building and didn't have bathrooms for the students, and students could only go to the bathrooms in the main building at lunch time one at a time. Three other girls came in while I was in there, and we all got detention, even though I was the one following the rules and had cleared it with the teacher first.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I got detention once for the third time I was tardy to art class. My school was shaped like a capital E. My locker was in the bottom horizontal of the E, next to my 4th period class, and ALL my other classes were in the top of the E, some on the second floor. Not exactly the best for getting to class on time. :/