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Post by candykane on Nov 12, 2010 10:38:16 GMT -5
I don't think it was shocking that Dawn attempted her cross country trip, but the fact that she executed the whole thing so smoothly was unbelievable. Agree. I don't think I could have pulled off something like that so perfectly at the age of 13. Mini-adults or not, it's hard to believe a BSC member could have done it, either!
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 12, 2010 21:10:37 GMT -5
^And so very quickly! It was also very hard to believe that no one at the airport questioned Dawn or her reservation. Taxi cab maybe, airport even back then, no way.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Nov 13, 2010 20:26:20 GMT -5
^ Nowadays, anyone that books a flight at the last minute like that gets questioned, big time. It happened to my mom when she was trying to get out of town to see her sister before she died.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 14, 2010 19:51:03 GMT -5
This happened just a few months ago, so technically it is possible.
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Post by starrynight on Nov 19, 2010 22:45:04 GMT -5
^ I remember hearing about that! We also had a kid in my area who kept trying to run away from home. He tried driving, flying, everything. He was only about 9 or 10...haven't heard anything about him in awhile, though.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 20, 2010 15:00:39 GMT -5
I'm a bit shocked that Wesley told the class to call him by his first name.
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Post by lilafowler on Nov 20, 2010 15:06:26 GMT -5
^Especially with such a small age difference between him and the students, and the volatility of an eighth-grade classroom! It can be pretty hard to keep a large group of kids that age under control, why would you do anything to undermine your own authority?
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 20, 2010 15:17:40 GMT -5
it's one thing for a camp counselor to use his first name, or maybe a teacher in a different setting (eg, a private music teacher). But in a public school?!?
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 20, 2010 21:13:28 GMT -5
^I went to public and had an 8th grade teacher that said we could call him Mr. or just use his first name, but he preferred we use his first name. He never seemed to have problems controlling his classes.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 20, 2010 21:26:14 GMT -5
But how old was he?
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 20, 2010 23:34:20 GMT -5
Mid-30s I guess, but I don't really see how it would be shocking if a young teacher requested it. Did Wes have no control of his class from the start? Don't remember...
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Post by oldhickory on Nov 20, 2010 23:43:40 GMT -5
that one kid was testing him by pretending to be a foreign student, but wes called him out on it. i guess they knew not to mess with him.
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Post by greer on Nov 21, 2010 8:50:52 GMT -5
We called most of our teachers by their first name at my high school. But it was boarding school, so we also spent time with them out of class. It's a bit different when they drive you to the mall and you watch movies at their house. There were even teachers who were in their 60s and 70s who were called by nicknames.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 31, 2011 11:41:14 GMT -5
I agree. You would think something would go wrong or make Dawn nervous instead of her plan going without a hitch.
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Post by u4me on Feb 8, 2011 20:55:39 GMT -5
To go back to the subject of calling teachers by their first name, I had a first teacher for government when I was a senior, and he said his nickname was JP when he was in school, so I started calling him that. He tried to be one of the cool teachers and was actually kind of annoying because he favored the "cool" kids.
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