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August 12, 2007 |
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Dear School
FOUND by David Klionsky
in Durham, North Carolina
Found in my elementary school's computer lab.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Christina's memo might be more effective if she'd actually typed it into a computer at the computer lab. Kids these days are lazy, have sloppy handwriting (unless she's 5), and are apparently quite sentimental. But I guess it's good that she LOVES her school so much. Most kids would write hate notes to their school buildings. Don't you think?
Well she couldn't leave without saying goodbye!
No. I respectfully disagree with Writer, Rejected. I would have written a note like that. I loved school. Except math and PE. I totally get where Christina is coming from.
reminds me of my high school days...
maybe if she didn't make out with that boy during recess, she wouldn't have gotten cooties and have to be sent home
Oh my gosh, I LOVE this!! I was the same way as a kid. Before I went to kindergarten, I played school in our basement. My mom had gotten a bunch of phonics books and an old school desk for me.
Christina rocks! She's my kind of gal.
I think it's kind of weird. Does it make sense that she's already missing it when she 'has' to go home, and is still there? And who the heck is she really writing to? The building? Bah. Weird.
i am sooooo ready for school to start again...this summer break effed up soooo many things
Tucker, you sure know alot about this poor girl.
I hope I can gradulate by the time I have my second kid. For real.
I personally think this person is too young and deluded to see straight. School is one form of squeezing your head into a box after another.
And please people stop bitching about people's handwriting. I know that you're all going to say that if you take time that you'll have good handwriting but this person looks like she's learning how to write (young and deluded and all of that) and NO ONE has good handwriting at that age. Not everyone can write perfectly.
P.S. I love all of the commentary back and forth between all of the various personas. I don't care if it's not about the found, it's amazing. I also <3 salt.
I second the above. I like it here.
What I really meant was that reminds me of my highschool boys...
luckily, i get to go back in 3 weeks and start squeezing kids' heads in boxes again. i hope christina didn't have to wait all summer before she went back.
When I read this I thought the kid sounded really sad and it made me wonder what she/he was going home to. For some kids school is a real haven and the only place where they can find caring adults: sometimes the only place that can get a hot meal. No wonder some kids miss school so much. Just a thought.
This is an adorable note for a kid to write, but I wonder what the circumstances were for her to write it...we had a few kids run away from elementary school (one of them we witnessed getting roughed up by a special ed teacher, righ befoe he ran into the woods, and the police came with search dogs to find him), but none of the kids ever left a note. Maybe they decided they really wouldn't miss school much. Eh, maybe she's just leaving for a dentist appointment or something and is missing out on show and tell.
I remember loving school because I didn't have to be at home, surrounded by fights, abuse and anger. They had a library, my magic carpet into another world. Yes, Cristina, you can start missing it ten minutes before the last bell rings. I hope you find a safe haven like I did.
How incredibly sad. I wish every child had a happy, nurturing, loving home to go to.
Hey, the guy who submitted this find is a Scrabble Tournament guy! Cool.
THAT KID HAS A SEVERE CASE OF SEPARATION ANXIETY.
OR IS IT A SEVER CASE OF SEPARATION ANXIETY?
Hotmom, your such a sentimental slut.
Cute note. I like the take on the dentist office. In elementary all kids like school, it not till junior high that the note would say. "I'm outta here, Fuck Off school" Imposter, Tucker knows everything. Pixi keep on posting, I always enjoy your input. Love the clever attacks on Salt and his capitals. I can't spot the real Salt unless it lame then I know it is him.
It's "you're" not "your," you illiterate git.
Way off subject here, but I went to an earlier find and it only had 9 comments. Anyway this early find is worth visiting. It is called Birthday Greetings.
I think that whoever wrote this note might have an abusive home and that is why she will miss school, it is her safe haven. I hate to be the downer... but I think this girl might have an issue...
i think you people are reading waaaaay too into this. she's YOUNG! notes like this are not out of the ordinary for someone in her age group. take the find for what it's worth and stop the petty arguing. WE are not in 1st grade here, folks.
Could be totally sarcastic -- actually can't bear to be in school a moment longer, but wrote this to amuse her mates (or annoy her teachers). Sorry, hotmom, but maybe she does actually have a happy home!
I don't have a happy home, so no one else should, either.
Pepper, thanks for reminding me of the Birthday Greetings find. I remember it. It is great. I will use the advice when dealing with fake salt.
Hey Ang, I also played school in my basement and my mom also got me a school desk! My previously mentioned theory that this site is a summer pasttime for a bunch of teachers is looking like it's pretty much true. I bet your students write notes like Christina's, too.
I think this is a rare find. Most kids do hate their schools today...but, then we as a nation haven't really given much to our children's school to allow them to love it in the first place. We don't pass ballots to improve the buildings, we don't pay teacher's enough to actually teach instead of police...and we don't usually have schools that have computer labs at all.
I think this is refreshing and renews my faith in the world a little.
Only the heart of child would have the courage to write this down.
Maybe it was a paper from a class where they practiced the layout of letter writing skills. Yes, she has a way to go - but I'm encouraged that it was written at all...by hand. Most kids only text, or email.
The art of the letter is dying.
But then, so is the hunger to learn by our children.
I wonder what grade Christina was in when she wrote this?
This is sweet & I only hope more children love school enough to put it in writing.
Jade hit the nail on the head with that comment. Thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself.
It really is a nice note.
Jade has made me soften my feelings toward little Christina (who is probably really not lazy, but just too young to reach the keyboard). Now I feel kind of good about the world. (I mean this non-ironically.) The art of the letter *is* dying. And kids like Christina will keep it alive with their passion for learning. That's a nice thought for the day.
I'm guessing this is an end of school year note to Christina's school. She's a bit sad about school baeing over for the year. She has anxiety about going to summer camp, meeting a bunch of new people, and coming back to see her friends who have played without her all summer. And then she'll have to go into a new grade in the fall, perhaps a new school (middle school?) and who knows what will happen then? She's saying goodbye to the life she has known.
Either that or she has a dentist appointment, like someone suggested.
cute note. it's easy to ferget what it's like to be a kid
Oh how nice!
I remember when I loved school.
It's nice to read that some kid out there still loves it too.
I never loved school; it always interrupted my various learning processes. I have had a few teachers who were just great, though.
Christina is a great speller!
What a great find!
This find makes me happy.
I wish the love of school and learning for every child!
And Writer, Rejected, I'm glad you changed your mind about this find and I'm glad you were big enough to tell us. It's turning out to be a beautiful day. 8-)
How charming. Out of the mouth (or in this case - from the pencil) of a child.
I still love learning & school with this type of passion.
This is what the comment page is all about. All pleasant and cheery Salt and Mona Lisa must have taken a break. Halleluiah! Shit, I hope I haven't started someting here. This kid is just young and writting a sweet and innocent note. I'm suprised she didn't name her teachers by name,
I think Mona said she'd see us Monday. I hope she clicks the back arrow and reads what she missed today. I think it will make her smile. Ditto for SALT.
Yay my name!!! :) And it's spelled correctly! Woo hoo, what a great surprise to see on the found page!
Also, I lived in NC from the ages of 4-21, but I didn't live near Raleigh and I never wrote like that, so this is not my handiwork.
My name is Christina and that is just like my handwriting as a kid. In fact it still kind of is.
Oh my! What a pleasant surprise to find that some children still love school.
That just lifted my spirits today.
does anyone really hate school that much? i think that people think it's just cool to pretend they hate school. props to christina for expressing her love for school, most people whould not be cought dead writing a letter about loving school.
what elementary school was this?
Gigi, I wish I were in that old Paris cafe with you! Have you seen "La Vie en Rose?" the movie about Edith Piaf? Quite possibly the best film of the year. Lots of old Paris cafe scenes.
She mentions the recipient of her note twice! Her school must be pretty hot if she sweats it that bad.
I really love that she hand wrote this in the computer lab. It reminds me of what we do at my school when the student to computer ratio is bad: "JUST TAKE OUT YOUR NOTEBOOKS AND WRITE YOUR STORY THERE."
That is way too cute.
This kid is missing school even before he/she has even left?
lol...this find actually made me laugh out loud, it relay does take you back...i was just thinking about how the school is going to read this note, is it a note to the school building itself or to the entire organization? Was this note delivered to a teacher and then misplaced, or simply placed in a remote location so that the school could hold it and cherish it for a while.
I do actually think that some kids are hugely tortured in school and really dread it. You know: kids with learning difficulties, kids who are picked on bullies, kids who don't fit in for one reason or another, kids who are depressed, kids with fucked up family life, kids who are too smart, etc. But I'm glad this is not the case for little Christina.
Speaking of feeling excluded at school, I have to say that I feel more at home when the Found site is not so clique-ish and insular. Like today, for instance, it feels wide open and welcoming. Nice.
What's a "git"?
Hoe come everyone is making such harsh comments about this? It was probably just some kid who was playing around and thought that they would actually get away with it. I think you guys should stop taking things so seriously.
This note is delightful - and I remember feeling that way about school.
I also agree completely with Writer, Rejected. I hope it continues.
I think we all have it in our power to do or not do what is needed for that to happen.
BTW- I remember having to wait for a computer in the lab....and yes, just take out your notebooks and write it down the old fahsioned way....somehow, it's nicer to see it in her handwriting.
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Git in Wiktionary, Git is most often British slang for a stupid or unpleasant person :) there ya go Rob
What's <3 mean? I've seen this used before, and now someone used it saying "I <3 Salt"
<3 (pronounced "less-than-three" or "heart") means "i love."
like on the I <3 NY t-shirts. but the heart is on its side for easier emoticonization.
My Dear Christine, resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated
Christina could be an older kid and just have a learning disability because: 1. most kids don't like school much, and if they do they won't let anyone know. 2. She writes poorly and at a slant. ( her words look like thay are running of the page, yet there are no spelling errors. 3. Why would someone address a letter to a pjysical place? Although I have heard of stranger things.
Correction: Oops it was NJ who recommended Birthday Greetings. Thank you NJ. Sorry Pepper for getting you confused with someone else.
Clover, that's okay, we are the same people.
Ah, the innocence of a child. Reminds me of my daughter who would blow kisses to her school when we would drive past. How many years before Christina becomes jaded. Maybe on her summer vacation she should "try taking an exotic vacation, maybe try New York."
Clover, i like this one as well. My mom tells me, that when i wasnt old enough to go to school, i'd walk my older sister to the end of our road, on her way to school, and cry all the way home, because i wasnt old enough yet. All i wanted to do was learn to read. dang it, look where its led me.
Cheers Christina! I love(d) school too. I hope your love continues.
Oh, the memories this brought back. Yes, I was a geeky kid. I loved school in spite of the assholes who stole my lunches, beat me up, and tore up my homework. School was my magic carpet, my ticket OUT of the backwater Missouri hell where I lived. Home was horrid - school was where questions were appreciated not punished, wonder was met with information not damnation. Yes. I loved school, and still do. Now I work in the lab on UW Madison campus, have access to the libraries and the faculty, and have yet to stop learning. Fabulous find!!!
This letter worries me, like maybe Christina has something terrible to go home to. I hope she's OK.
I wonder if school ever wrote back...?
Hope she was happy when she got home.
I have a feeling she was abused.
Poor little kid! What in the world are they going through at home that they love being at school so much?
How sad & messed up this kid's home life must be for her to feel the need to write a love letter to school before she leaves?