had trouble with a teacher on this exact subject, but I sang "DOGIE" with a loud voice and great zeal that some of the students were either singing it like me, or it was messing up other students.
as punishment, she moved my desk outside of class. I always liked it outside anyways, that way I could see all the dragonflies and bugs and such. She also still wanted me to sing with the class from outside, so I sang louder and greater zeal, which made the other teachers mad at her and that would send me to a trip to the principal.
what is wrong with these city folks??
Well, I sang dogie, and when I look at the nonsense over Big Gulps and the silliness in the White House and other points urban, I just remember that day and it all makes a kind of weird sense. B^)
I wish they'd have set my desk up outside because I sure hated school that year. That was the same year that the teacher drew a circle on the blackboard and had everybody saying it was a square. I was in tears because I knew the difference between a circle and a square, and I kept saying so, and I was scared to death because I saw how everyone else in that class would have fallen into line in a dictatorship or a lynch mob. And I was only about ten years old then. That day with the circle on the blackboard I felt something physically break inside me and I don't think I've been quite the same sense.
