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“Self-discipline is the virtue that makes writing this sentence unnecessary.”
My 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Wilson, made us write sentences whenever we got in trouble.
I was a proper little shit back then & wrote this sentence well over a thousand times until…
One day Jonny P. found where Mrs. Wilson kept the submitted pages.
From that moment, about five of us had a pact: never date the pages, never put your name in the top right, always 25 sentences, never number them, only blue ink, and don’t write too neatly. Sadly, Megan’s handwriting was far too nice to participate, but she kept our secret anyway.
Soon we were writing sentences just in case anyone needed them later that day. The bigger our inventory & the more pages we recycled from her desk the more outrageous our behaviour got. Which, of course, earned us even more sentences.
There was a surprisingly efficient sharing market for “sentences.”
Turns out sentences were teaching about balancing behavior with inventory. 🤷🏻♂️