Never a dull moment...

There is one boy in the classroom that we have had trouble with when it comes to lying (and I’ve only been here four days). During small group activities, that particular boy came to me and said, “Miss Jaspers, so-and-so just jabbed himself in the head with his pencil and it is sticking straight out of his head.” Well, me, being the untrained, unbelieving person that I am told him, “You worry about you and let so-and-so worry about so-and-so.” Who would have ever thought that when he said, “so-and-so jabbed his pencil into his forehead” that he really meant that it happened!!! Not me, that’s for sure. A few seconds later I looked over and saw the boy that had “jabbed his pencil into his head” talking with my supervising teacher. She sent him to the office, so I went to talk to her about it. Come to find out, he had stabbed himself in the head with a pencil, but not deep enough to make it really “stick out of his head.” There were also several “lead marks” on his head, like he had tried several times before he actually broke through the skin. So, the next time some one comes up to you and says, “He jabbed a pencil in his head and it’s sticking straight out.” Remember that there was some one else in this world crazy enough to do it too.