I saw a post about overdue book fees and it reminded me of when I used to swipe books from my middle school teachers. not on purpose⊠most of the time. see, our middle school sucked ass for a variety of reasons of which iâll get to at a later date. however, one of the things it had going for it was a pretty okay reading program thingy. youâd read an independent reading book and then conference with your english teacher and talk about the book. everytime you read a book and had a conference you got a star on a chart or whatever and at certain ammounts of books read youâd get a reward like a handful of homework coupons, a bag of candy of your choice, or my personal fav, an automatic A on a quiz (not a test but still) in any class you had. like I said, it was a pretty sweet reading program. anyway, to encourage this, every classroom had a bookshelf or two filled with novels the school deemed appropriate and if a kid didnât have a book to read, and had finished all the classwork, they were free to borrow a book. no one really took up the offers. most either had their own books or would rather dick around than overachieve like me. (In reading. I sucked hard in history and i made up for that with the quiz coupons) so I went through books like a knife through softened butter, and I often found myself at the teachers book shelves. Iâd always put the books back afterwards save for two variables; 1) I liked the book a lot 2) it was near the end of the year and I forgot to put it back before school ended. I was never found out, but over my middle school career I managed to snatch; Old Yeller, The Catcher in the Rye, The Hobbit, Flowers for Algernon, Twilight: New Moon (I know. It was a phase. letâs never speak of it again.), both Jurassic Park novels, the first Percy Jackson novel, and Of Mice and Men. and I still have all of them except I got rid of the Twilight novel, and I moved recently so Percy Jackson and Algernon are in some unknown box somewhere in my dining room. the others currently reside on my bookshelf right now. I was never caught, never found out, and until now, Iâd never told anyone about it. Itâs lame, but like, Itâs the only bad thing iâve ever done, so let me have this. Iâm 100% sure that my 8th grade teacher began to catch on though when she saw me reading Flowers for Algernon, and then The Hobbit and after i finished them they ceased to exist in her library so when I got to of Mice and Men she was like âyo you need to sign for that book because shit keeps disappearingâ and I was like âsure.â It was my last year in middle school and there was a week left. I had nothing to lose. She never chased me down for it, anyway.
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