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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.

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[lotuseyes.livejournal.com]

its funny in junior high I got in trouble also because I would often skip lunch period and hide out in the library (I was actually the reason they began to take roll call at lunch during the third marking period of 7th) and in high school I'd skip lunch and study hall to have about a hour and half in the library. by 10th I had read all the books I was interested and flipped through the ones I wasn't and the librarians just kept writing me passes to help them during that time. My vice--principal started to get suspicious when he saw I had more hours clocked in the library then I did in most classes XD

my 9th grade history teacher, Miss Potashner, would also check my bookbag for non-history related books, something that was again practiced by my 11th grade Criminal Justice teacher Mr. Tobias b/c he didn't like the fact I would read during the Law and Order hour each Tuesday. Though I have to say the funniest thing ever was in 12th grade English CP. Mr. Lymper, the teacher, was handing out the booklist for the semester and he said to everyone not to worry it wasn't THAT many books. Brian Lynch piped up and said 'Hey Alex, don't you have more books then this in your locker?' which Mr. Lymper thought he was joking about...until I took him to my locker (two down from his class down) and showed him the shelves of books I had stashed instead of a coat and such. As it turned out I had about a third of the books in my locker as it was and had read 5 others besides (the only one I hadn't read was a book of Hemmingway's short stories).

This unfortunately lead to the fact that I could never claim to have not read the book in class and my classmates looking to me to supply the correct answers when they were stumped.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I got in trouble for reading during lunch/break too. Also got the bit where students thought I should help them all with their homework.