Don´t Want to go to School!!!!

Honey, get up it´s time to go to school.

I don’t want to go to school, mom.

OK then, convince me why I should allow you to stay home.

Well, to start off with nobody else is going because it is the last week before vacation. If the kids don’t normally want to study, do you think they will now?

Nobody else is going? That can’t be right.

Ok, fewer kids are going. The classes are very empty.

Go on.

Those that do go get stuck watching videos during all the classes or even play games all day long.

It sounds like fun. It doesn’t make sense to want to stay home. Go to school. Watch videos. Play games. Oh how much fun!

Mom, are you feeling alright?

Perfectly fine. Why?

Mom, you can’t be serious.

Son, listen. When you do go to school you always complain about some teachers that just like to teach and don’t like to neither play games nor show videos just to relax and now you are complaining. Come on. This is what you have been asking for all semester. Fun time!

But this is different.

How?

You pay so much money for me to go to school and play all day? I can play here. I can watch movies here and it is cheaper.

Yes, you can and yes that would be cheaper.

So why are you forcing me to go when there is nothing going on?

To teach you a lesson.

Which is?

Come on you are a smart boy. Can’t you figure it out on your own?

Huh?

Come on. Put your thinking cap on.

(Silence and a dumb founded look on his face)

Son, next time you pester your teacher about playing a game or watching a video instead of letting her carry out her class plan, think back and remember how boring it is to do it all day long.

(Sigh) I get it mom.

Good! Now off to school you go. Have fun!

Yeah, right!

( written June 19, 2012)
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