Recently I did a huge spring cleaning of our file cabinet. It was overflowing and there was way too much junk bursting out of the seams. You see, both J and I tend to save paperwork. We have a hard time shredding stuff. I'm not sure why.
Anyway, I overhauled the file cabinet, and as I was going through stuff, I found a paper that I have kept for a few years.
When I first started teaching, I was offered the chance to go to Arizona to help score the 10th grade writing WASL. It was an interesting process, but at times, it was mindnumbingly dull. There were a few quotes, though, in kids' essays that were worth remembering. I'll share my favorites with you over the next week or two.
Here's the first one: "You only get out of life what you put in….you know what they say: Life is like one big change machine at the arcade." (Anonymous 10th grader from five or six years ago.)
Now if that doesn't stop to make you think, I don't know what does. As the queen of mixed metaphors, there's just something about this quote that makes me smile.
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That is another great quote! Makes you wonder what these kids grow up to be, ya know?
I was thinking the same thing Kaci!!
I'm anxious to hear the other ones!
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