Ok, so yesterday's post made me remember this particular event with the same teacher where I was right and he was wrong (did I say I love it when I'm right?)...
We were both at a morning meeting with my beloved principal and other teachers, discussing school-wide discipline. We were brainstorming ideas to encourage good behavior (always a good thing...). As we brainstormed, we began to talk about focusing on monthly traits and recognizing kids that exemplified the traits at monthly assemblies. We then began to brainstorm what traits we thought would be the best ones to focus on. One of the fourth grade teachers was recording the traits as we listed them.
Our school already has the "3 Rs." Those are Respect, Responsibility, and Reliability. But we were expanding on that list. Someone eventually suggested "perseverance." As the recorder was writing it down, she paused, and said to the person next to her, "This doesn't look right. I think I've got too many 'rs' in the word..." I glanced over and saw that she had spelled it: perserverance. I reached over and lightly crossed out the second 'r' in the word, and whispered, "I don't think there's an 'r' there..."
Another teacher, the religious 5th grade teacher, told me confidently, "She's right."
"She is?" I asked. "Then I've been spelling it wrong...Are you sure?"
"Yes," he replied.
After the meeting, we walked out together. He told me, "Never doubt how to spell the word 'perseverance' with someone who reads his Bible every night!"
When I got to my room, I went to my favorite website, dictionary.com. I entered the word "perseverance" the way I knew it was spelled, and sure enough, I was right. So I copied the link, and sent it in an email to him. I said in the email, "I guess you had better read your Bible a little more carefully..."
He had the decency to laugh about it.
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