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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
Author Insight
Paper Birds = Behavior Room
This bit is based on something that happened in our family many years ago. My daughter (who now has a PhD in Special Ed) is a behavior specialist for a large school system in California, a college instructor, and the mother of 4 boys) got in trouble at school only once. I realized something was wrong when she rang the front doorbell instead coming in the back door as usual. When I answered the doorbell, there stood Louisa, crying, and proclaiming "I"m NEVER going back to school!" For the first (and only, as it turned out) time, she had been sent to the Dreaded Behavior Room. Her offense? Exactly what I described as Prizzy's childhood episode. I looked at the time on the Pink Slip Louisa had brought home for me to sign. It was ten minutes before the end of the school day. I figured that the teacher had not a good day and when Louisa threw that paper bird, she had just had it. Later when I spoke with her, she said that was what had happened. Louisa is just lucky that she went to school in the 20th and not the 19th century, of she might have faced a ferule!
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
“You were punished, ma’am? Whatever for?” I asked, truly astonished at this revelation.
Prissy paused in thought, looking up at the rough wooden beams that crossed the ceiling before she went on. “It was all very silly. Some of us girls had made some birds out of folded paper and started tossing them about the schoolroom to see if they would fly. The schoolmistress told us to stop, but I could not resist one more throw, and she caught me in the act. I think she hit me extra hard because she was so shocked I would disobey. I had always been quite a Goody Two Shoes, if you know who that is.
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