Every time I watch the open credits to the Simpson I have a little twitch. Most of it is cute, but the part where Bart rights some sort of “I will not…” on the board brings back memories of my elementary school. St. Adelaide’s was where I got in trouble and it seems now like it was every day. Besides hitting me with a ruler or a pointer, the favorite punishment was writing a thousand times “I will not….. “. When you end up having this punishment you start to develope strategies which make the work go faster. For example you would never write the whole sentence, instead you would write the I then the will and so on down the page to make it go faster. Some would even write one long line and then come back and put the tops and bottoms on the I’s, but the Nuns would get upset at this one so you had to line them up with the blue lines on the paper. Others would try to make one mark to be both the bottom of one and the top of the next, but this also might get your lunchtime punishment rejected. The idea was to know what your current teacher would accept and do it as quickly as possible hoping to get at least a few minutes of lunch to play. The only other option was to prefill some sheets leaving just the actual offense off to be filled in when needed. This would take real commitment to getting in trouble and I don’t think any of us thought that much in advance.