Not for sure if it's a true story, but I like it, so I thought I would share
> I FOUND THIS TO BE AN INTERESTING STORY AND THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE!
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> MORE KIDS NEED TO EXPERIENCE WHAT THIS TEACHER HAD THE GUTS TO DO!!!!
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> I HAVE CHECKED IT ON 'SNOPES.COM' AND IT IS A TRUE STORY!
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http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp<http://www.snopes.com/glurge/nodesks.asp>
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> Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren,
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> a social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock,
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> did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the
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> permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building
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> supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the
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> first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no
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> desks.
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> Looking around, confused, they asked, 'Ms. Cothren, where're our desks?'
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> She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done
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> to earned the right to sit at a desk.'
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> They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.'
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> No,' she said.
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> 'Maybe it's our behavior.'
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> She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.'
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> And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period.
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> Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon, television news crews
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> had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this
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> crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room.
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> The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found
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> seats on the floor of the desk less classroom, Martha Cothren said,
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> 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done
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> to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom.
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> Now I am going to tell you.'
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> At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and
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> opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniforms, walked into
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> that classroom, each one carrying a school desk . The Vets began placing
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> the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside
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> the wall.
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> By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place, those kids
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> started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how
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> the right to sit at those desks had been earned.
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> Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These
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> heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to
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> you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good
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> students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have
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> the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.'
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> This is a true story....
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