ZOMG I just won the internet!

Really. I did. muusu will back me up.

And it wasn't even online. So Muu and I are out at Borders, just browsing through the whole store, looking for lonely little books to adopt and take home. We're in the psychology/self-help section and Muu picks up the "7 habits for highly effective people" book. This brings back memories.

I spent 2nd through 6th grade at an elementary school in Aurora. The principal for some of these years was a woman by the name of Shirley LeClare who just happened to use this book in the last few years as a basis for education. A framework, shall we say. Also, this woman was...umm...a bit on the crazy side.

For example, under her rule:
Clothes with Looney Toons characters were banned, as they were "gang symbols".
Halloween was banned when I was in fourth grade. The resulting holiday: Multicultural day. (Side notes: yes, this is public school. Yes, everyone was automatically assumed Christian. No, I see no problem with having a multicultural day, just not in replacement for Halloween.)

There was also the problem with keeping order during lunch, which finally ended with the policy of having classes sit together at one table. Also, if the lunch hour got too disruptive, there was a policy called silent lunch, in which no talking was allowed and the children would have to sit in one of the classrooms in silence during the normal after-lunch recess.

It was during one of these silent lunches, when I was in third grade, that I totally came to dislike a few of these teachers, Ms. Shirley LeClare among them. It's a silent lunch, and there's about 100 kids all sitting in silence in a 2nd Grade classroom. All bored. All looking for a thing to do. So I move my lips. No sound. Just lip movements. A teacher interprets this as talking, and when I dispute it, I'm asked if I'm calling that teacher a liar. To a 8-9 year-old scorpion spawn, I say yes. Because her version is different from what I know happened. This ends up in an in-school suspension for a day and a call home for disrespect. Even though the teacher asked a yes-or-no question. When my mom got this call, it was perhaps the few times I can remember her standing up for me, and telling them that you don't ask a kid that age that type of question.

Now, admittedly, Aurora is not a primo-school district, and there were a few good things about it. But looking back, that school was on a whole lot of crack. No wonder there were three principles in the four years I was there.

So, back to winning the internet. Muu and I are in Borders, and this comes up. Particularly the top two examples with the Looney Toons and "Multicultural Day." And this guy overhears and pretty much gawks. I win for having one of the worst elementary schools ever. And after he fields a phone call, he pretty much declares me winner of the internet. "It's yours, just take it! I thought my school sucked, but yours just wins the prize. It's better than anything on 4-chan."

So yes, I won the internet tonight. No modem needed.

You may bow now, minions.

Over and out.