An update. An update! With actual content!

Dear readers,

it has been quite some time since this blog saw an update with actual content.

Unfortunately my private situation doesn't allow for writing myself at the moment. However, as I am a switcher, I also enjoy setting lines for others to write, and I had the pleasure of having a pupil under strict detention recently. Let's call her Anastasia (she doesn't want to be mentioned by her real name here).

I don't want to bore you with the details. Let's just say that Anastasia had to write lines for me a week ago. And I gave a strict rules and a strict timetable - her detention included writing lines and standing in the corner at set times. Because she broke some of those rules (only minor things - but really, does it matter? Breaking a rule is not tolerated) she asked for another detention.

I told her to write this paragraph 75 times:

"My teachers know best what is good for me and my education. I therefore have to follow the rules they have set me at all times. If I misbehave or break the school rules they have every right and obligation to punish me in order to correct and improve my behaviour. These lines serve as reminder that I did not follow the rules and have disappointed my teachers."

To add some spice, and to not let her get into a writing flow, I gave a strict schedule of alternating writing and corner time. This was at her own request. I'm not sadistic enough to come up with that idea myself ;-) and I certainly wouldn't want that to be imposed on me, especially as it doesn't quite fit into my concept of a school detention. Afterwards she confirmed that she simultaneously liked and hated it.

Now as I said, I'm not sadistic. However, when I checked her lines I couldn't help but have an evil smile on my face when I looked at one of her discarded pages.
I told her that I wanted her to write on both sides of the paper. And that I wanted all papers completely free of mistakes, that means front and back side. So if she did a mistake on the back side, well that's too bad, because she had to discard the front side as well.

 

What happened to Anastasia here is pretty much the worst case scenario. Making a mistake on the penultimate line of page 8 - and having to discard page 7 and 8 in the process. Poor girl. I wish I could have been there in the very moment when she realised she made a mistake, just to see her face.

What I liked about the whole detention was that the thrill for me is basically the same. I love the thought of the opposites - one person under strict rules, the other person free to do as he or she pleases - but being the teacher has the benefit that it is less time consuming. :-)

Anastasia wrote a little story based upon her experience that day. While many details come from her fantasy, the general procedure is based on pretty much what happened. Have fun reading it (click "read more" to see it).

Thank you, Anastasia, for letting me publish your story.

-Cornelia