If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
Winston Churchill
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What 5th Graders Wish You Knew
“We hate questions at the end of the chapter. Can’t we do something different?”” Do you know what it feels like to have 2 hours of homework after sitting in class all day, usually without any PE?”
” I’m nervous enough about the test without you making me more scared.”
” Copying definitions— what’s your point?”
” We need PE EVERY DAY!”
” Not knowing what to write about when you give a writing assignment.”
” We come to school some days in a bad mood, too.”
” Please don’t scream at us.”
” We don’t understand the social studies book very well.”
” Lunch is the only time we get to talk to our friends and then you take it away with silent lunch. That’s rotten.”
” A car ran over my cat this morning and I’m trying hard not to cry.”
(Actual quotes from NC 5th Graders, 2000)