Phone-Borrower Kidlet asked to lay on the couch during break. She curled into an awkward looking corner. The other classroom teacher called and let me know that another student saw a Phone-Lender Kidlet (a different one than before) give his phone to Phone-Borrower. Phone-Lender was denying it. I stood up, walked over to Phone-Borrower, held out my hand, and she put the phone in my hand. I asked her to write down what happened, she told most of the truth, and went quietly to ISS where she served her time.
So. Lesson learned? Possibly. She didn't lie this time, right? It didn't take two days of hard-core ISS and detective work to figure it out. AND, it was a DIFFERENT Phone-Lender this time. I'll give it a 6 out of 10 on the lesson learned scale.
*Note--In my secret super-powered brain you dither on and on about my posts. Let me have this illusion for now.
* Note #2--BTW and FYI, while deciding on the title to this post I found the possible origin for the liar-liar-pants-on-fire rhyme. Here 'tis. It may not be correct, but I like the concept. The website looks interesting too.
- Deceiver, dissembler
- Your trousers are alight
- From what pole or gallows
- Shall they dangle in the night?
- When I asked of your career
- Why did you have to kick my rear
- With that stinking lie of thine
- Proclaiming that you owned a mine?
- When you asked to borrow my stallion
- To visit a nearby moored galleon
- How could I ever know that you
- Intended to turn him into glue?
- What red devil of mendacity
- Grips your soul with such tenacity?
- Will one you cruelly shower with lies
- Put a pistol ball between your eyes?
- What internal serpent
- Has lent you his forked tongue?
- From what pit of foul deceit
- Are all these whoppers sprung?
- Deceiver, dissembler
- Your trousers are alight
- From what pole or gallows
- Do they dangle in the night?
- [William Blake]
- Goal Progress: 7/20
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