Tuesday, May 01, 2007

A few years back, one dreadful boy ran up to me and said, "Mr. Bradbury?"

"Yes?" I said.

"That book of yours,
The Martian Chronicles?" he said.

"Yes," I said.

"On page 92, where you have the moons of Mars rising in the East?"

"Yeah," I said.

"Nah," he said.

So I hit him. I'm damned if I'll be bullied by bright children.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

BWAH!!! That made my day Odious! I have to try that in my classroom sometime...

Odious said...

I've always pictured classroom discipline along more Little House on the Prairie lines: harsh words and a decent bullwhip.