Show and Tell

While working in the library, I often find notes or pictures that students have added to the books.  I must say some of these drawings and notes are too good not to save, so I have started taking pictures of them.  Here is one of my favorites.

For those of you who can not translate elementary the note reads "I hate that ugly Mrs. Honey, Asshole."

 I believe this was a personal note to me because my name was on it.  I cropped my name out of it, but if I hadn't you would also see that the student spelled it wrong.  How that can happen I don't understand.  I do not have a name that can be spelled in different ways.  There is only one way to spell my name and this kid got it wrong! So what did I do?  Well when I figured out the last student to have the book, the principal and I tried to get her to confess.  As you can imagine, she denied, denied, denied.  Without proof, there was nothing I could do. Well that wasn't good enough for me, so the next time I had her class, I made sure that the days lesson was on the proper spelling of Mrs. Honey's name.  I wrote my name on the board correctly and had the whole class write my name as many times as they could for the last 10 minutes of class.  When they asked why they were doing that, I said, "I want to make sure that the next time I see my name written anywhere that it is spelled correctly."  Here's the kicker, when I checked my suspects paper, she had spelled my name wrong again, exactly the same way that it was spelled in the book.  But she didn't do it, right?

I would also like to point out that I am never an asshole.  Bitch maybe, but never an asshole.  Get that right next time too!