Premeditated homework hiding
September 23rd 2011 23:18
This morning after Jake had already left for school I found a textbook and a loose sheet of blank homework on the kitchen table. It's Friday, when homework for the week is due.
I dropped the book off at the principal's office and attached a note apologizing that the book wasn't in my son's backpack and assuring Jake's first grade teacher that the missing page of homework would be finished over the weekend and handed in on Monday.
This evening my son's teacher called to thank me for dropping off the book and the note, but she informed me that it wasn't ONE sheet of homework missing. The whole week's assignments were missing, along with not one but TWO textbooks.
I asked my son what happened to his other book and the rest of his homework and within seconds he produced them.
My mother watches Jake in the afternoons while I'm at work. She had asked all week if he had homework. He told her no every day. She didn't believe him so she checked his backpack, and sure enough, no books, no homework.
That's because Jake had thought to hide the stuff ahead of time so my mother wouldn't find it when she checked. He only got busted when the teacher called.
It didn't take but a minute for my mother and I to figure out what he had done. A time out does not suffice for a premeditated offense. This one will cost him television and video game privileges, and he'll be skipping the county fair this weekend while he catches up on a week's worth of homework.
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