For old times sake

So I'm sitting here, digging through my papers and homework from kindergarten to this years eight grade, and I find a certain haiku that I had written when I was but a third grader. It had been the only "U" I had gotten on any assignment that entire year.Heck it the only one lower than a B on anything, and led me to my first and only "B" on my report card for the year. I had written:

"Any moron can
write haiku. Just stop at
the seventeenth sy"


The teacher described it as "lazy", "without meaning", and "just plain silly". I was told to work harder on my writing skills, and to not be silly.


So, anyhow, two years pass, and I have now gone into fifth grade. I'm cleaning out my desk when I happened to find this paper. Curious to see how it would fare with my new teacher, I waited about a month until we had a similar haiku assignment. I hoped it would do better.

Unfortunatly, a "D+" was hardly a better score, esspecially with a teacher I had scored straight A's with and whose so called "teacher's pets" included me. This time, the comments included " not much work effort", "hastily written paper", and " mocking, rude" paper. Dissapointed, I stuffed it back into my completely filled desk.


Another few years pass, and I enter the eigth grade, fresh and ready, and once again, in an attempt to clean my desk. And, surprise, surprise, what do I find but the haiku I had written as a third grader. Being so "fresh" and "renewed", I tried once again valiently to sumbit my paper for better results for my teacher haiku assignment. I, ever the optimist, hoped to bring that "D+" up some.

In that I succeeded. A "C-"! Still dissapoining, though, and the comments became harsher. Cruel, arrogant, rude, and foolish were some of the nicer comments I got. Nevertheless, she had given some points on "creativity", even though she dissapproved. And once again, the paper returned to my desk.

Wonder what'll happen next year...

That's certainly a strange story, and coincidence. It kept popping up in your desk when you needed it. Why did you keep using it for assignments when you were getting bad grades, and turning teachers against you?

Originally posted by ark13
That's certainly a strange story, and coincidence. It kept popping up in your desk when you needed it. Why did you keep using it for assignments when you were getting bad grades, and turning teachers against you?

Originally posted by arrakis
and not only that... but how many kids do you know that save stuff from kindergarden to 8th grade? I'm starting to smell something fishy about this character.
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Occasionally
(Let's say about half the time)
mine close with a rhyme.

So you do agree with the original poem...🙂

Originally posted by abejnood
So I'm sitting here, digging through my papers and homework from kindergarten to this years eight grade, and I find a certain haiku that I had written when I was but a third grader. It had been the only "U" I had gotten on any assignment that entire year.Heck it the only one lower than a B on anything, and led me to my first and only "B" on my report c ...[text shortened]... sapproved. And once again, the paper returned to my desk.

Wonder what'll happen next year...

school was that place that I slept in , thats pretty much all I remember

I've never slept as well as at my old familiar desk.

Originally posted by phil nutley
Whats a haiku?
When is eigth grade?
How come you keep the same desk all the wa through school?
Mmmm maybe I'm to old for this thread

Originally posted by Starrman
Haiku is a Japanese poem composed over three lines and set to the following syllabic form

5
7
5

For example:

Haiku; a poem
of seventeen syllables,
no more and no less

As to 8th Grade, I too am puzzled, it seems there is a curious system of ranking in American schools, does it depend on age? or time? or grades of previous years? Who can tell, it is surely a mystery.

Originally posted by Canadaguy
my mom has kept most of my stuff. if i wantes to i could check it out.. but id only do that to remind myslf what a dumb turd i was

Originally posted by arrakis
and not only that... but how many kids do you know that save stuff from kindergarden to 8th grade? I'm starting to smell something fishy about this character.
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