I was volunteering in Full Speed’s class, which when given a chance to interact with the kids, I thoroughly enjoy. It’s a lot more entertaining than if I get sent off to make copies or cut paper. I love to watch Full Speed in the classroom setting. He’s impatient, antsy, full of answers even to questions that aren’t being asked and rather comical. A lot of the kids like to share with me that Full Speed is ‘silly’ or ‘funny’. I interpret this to mean ‘ the teacher has her hands full keeping him in line’. So when his teacher pulls me aside to discuss a morning incident concerning Full Speed, I am not surprised.
Apparently there was a scuffle of sorts with a fellow classmate in which Full Speed hit the other child with his lunch box. When the teacher asked him point-blank why he did it he said, ‘I don’t know, ma’am’. When pressed further about his intentions he kept politely replying, ‘I don’t know, ma’am’.
The bad news is that Full Speed can be a little hotheaded; the good news is his manners will be impeccable when questioned in a court of law.
I’m so relieved.
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