Without any further introduction, here is:
"The First Time I Got Head Bonked."
Hi I’m Jack. My story will be cool. Let me introduce my friends, Nora and Franky.
There is a bully in my class. He is called Head Buster. Do you know why he is called that? Cause he head bonks people.
My friends and I were at Orchard School. It was a great sunny day. We were reading then the school bell rang. All of a sudden big bully Head Buster head bonked me. I stumbled to the cement. Then he butted me and gooed and said "Oh! Look who is on the cement!"
Then Mr. Williams came and said "Why are you laying on the cement?"
"Cause he head bonked me," I pointed to him.
"You two come with me," said Mr. Williams.
So we followed him. He took us to his office. Mr. Williams said "You say sorry."
"No!"
"Okay, you have to do 1,000 sentences!"
"No!"
"You are suspended for 100 days!"
"No way!"
"Yes! Jack, you go to class."
"Okay, bye."
My friends and I are safe.
Proud Dad's Comments:
1. M’s story intrigues me because it displays a proficient and quite functional understanding of the Golden Rule, what is acceptable behavior.
2. Likewise, his story reflects a hope and/or faith in a functioning leadership, authority figures as protectors of the little people, the victims. I assume too that his story was picked to be read because it helps perpetuate the belief that teachers and principals are omniscient, are aware of what is going on in the playground at all times, and can swoop in and take control nearly immediately.
3. I know from speaking with M that there used to be a bully in his class who picked on him consistently. The kid finally moved away and M refers to this as a "miracle." It never ceases to amaze me that by the second and third grades, there are kids who pick up abusive behavior traits from parents, siblings, or their friends and find it entertaining threatening others.
4. I find it revealing too that M seems to have captured a key reaction in moments of abuse, primarily that by-standers and/or friends often don’t come to the help of the victim for fear of retribution or just plain apathy-it’s not me or someone I know so why worry.
5. M's story has very good rythmn; he shows a good grasp of conversation. I'm quite thrilled. And of course I'm biased.
