The Spider's Fly

Mrs. Denmark ordered Lindsey to the chalk board at the front of the class. Once Lindsey was standing in front of the chalk board, she ordered her to complete twenty sentences (in cursive), stating I will not talk in class. Mrs. Denmark continued to speak to the rest of the class explaining the days lessons, while Lindsey was completing the sentences. A few students were talking to each other and not paying attention to their teacher. This made Mrs. Denmark angry and she warned them that the next person to speak was also going to have to write sentences as well. Needless to say, the class immediately became quiet and cooperative. Lindsey finally completed her sentences, but not in cursive. As she began to sit in her desk, Mrs. Denmark called her back to the chalk board and asked everyone what Lindsey did wrong. All of the students yelled out “It’s not in cursive!” Mrs. Denmark ordered Lindsey to erase the board and start again making sure to complete all of the sentences in cursive. it took her an hour, but she finally did it. This time it was her cursive hand writing that was unacceptable. Lindsey was left handed and during all of her other grades (except fourth grade), all of her teachers tried to force her to switch to right hand. Lindsey tried her best to switch, but because of her dyslexia, it only complicated things more, and made it more difficult for her to read, so she decided to just stick with being left handed. Since it was already the end of the day, Mrs. Denmark told Lindsey that when she gets home from school, she will need to rewrite the sentences, and this time she will need to stay on the line for each sentence. When she wrote on the chalk board, her sentences were very crooked and instead of writing from left to right, she wrote from bottom to top. While the rest of the class had no home work that day, Lindsey was going to be stuck writing sentences well into the night. She didn’t even have time sit down and eat dinner with the rest of her family.