{"id":1443,"date":"2025-11-17T15:36:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:36:58","slug":"schoolroom-antics-question-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/17\/schoolroom-antics-question-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolroom Antics ~ Question of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month we&#8217;re been looking at the education of Regency students and scholars. The antics of schoolroom have provided fodder for many a novels. Did you know that many of your Regency Reflections authors have had interesting moments within the school walls as well.<\/p><div id=\"vanes-2192075833\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So we asked our authors, &#8220;What was your biggest school days blunder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Woman At Writing Desk\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/dd\/Johann_Ender_-_Woman_at_her_Writing_Desk_-_WGA07512.jpg\" alt=\"Woman At Writing Desk\" width=\"227\" height=\"262\" \/>Laurie Alice Eakes<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>To be honest, I have nothing to share. I kept too low a profile in school unless I absolutely knew the answer just to avoid this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Unless this after school event gives it away\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I had a terrible crush on a geeky guy\u2014Hmm, I married a computer geek turned lawyer geek\u2014and wrote a poem to him. I can still remember part of it. Mind you, I was fifteen and painfully shy.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I wish I were a computer<br \/>\nOr a slide rule and equasions I could do,<br \/>\nFor if I were one, or maybe both,<br \/>\nSome notice I might receive from you. . .<\/p>\n<p>And so it went. Well, we were in the literary club together, and during a meeting, while sharing things, I accidentally pulled this poem from my notebook instead of the banal one I intended to share. . .<\/p>\n<p>Oops.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Susan Karsten<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>This is going to sound really strange, since things have changed SO much. When I was in 2nd grade, in about 1962-63, I was asked, by my teacher, who I will call Mrs. Mustard, to come into the supply closet. This was a room, with shelves on 3 sides and a window. It was the teacher&#8217;s private little storeroom. She regretted to inform me that my red and white checked blouse had come untucked, and would I please not let that happen again. My, things have changed! By the way, this was a public school.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Teaching Relief\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c6\/Guildford-Teaching.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"242\" \/>Kristy Cambron<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>I&#8217;ve always felt that as a student, you could try to blend in with the class and avoid any embarrassing moments. But alas, my \u00a0biggest education blunder was when I was in the on-stage role as the teacher. I was a corporate facilitator at the time and was training a class of more than forty adult learners on customer service soft skills. It was a great class &#8211; learners were energetic and engaged. Everyone smiled and seemed to throughly enjoy themselves \u00a0So when one learner approached me at the end of class, I hoped to hear positive feedback on her classroom experience. The last thing I expected was for her to tell me I&#8217;d just trained the class and no one had bothered to tell me that my suit pants zipper had been broken all\u00a0day!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Naomi Rawlings<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>I accidentally went into the boys locker room before a basketball game. I didn&#8217;t realize the visiting team used the girl&#8217;s locker room, and I was just trying to get to the bathroom and following the sign that said girls. Fortunately I was in elementary school and it was a high school game. So I wasn&#8217;t old enough to get teased mercilessly for the rest of my day. But my cheeks still get red just thinking about it. I must have been the color of a tomato for the rest of the night!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"School Desk\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/e9\/Munkegaard_School_-_school_desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"163\" \/>Kristi Ann Hunter<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em>Oh the options. I think the question might not be what was my biggest blunder, but which one am I willing to share in a public forum! When I was in sixth grade, my best friend had English and Math together. I feel quite bad for our teachers. We had to write a lot of sentences in English class. My friend and I made ridiculous sentences about polka dotted potties and remote controlled spitwads.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, in math class, we took turns sitting in front of each other and slowing pushing the other&#8217;s desk forward. We&#8217;d see how far we could get before the teacher got mad at us.<\/p>\n<p>photos by Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What was your biggest schoolroom blunder?<\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2012-09-19 10:00:00. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-2997603161\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month we&#8217;re been looking at the education of Regency students and scholars. 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