Last year my school instituted a new policy where as every graduating 6th grader must do six-hours of service work in the community or school. It is a great program which teaches the children giving and gets me eager, willing volunteers 
It is also used as a way to “punish” the children who have strayed(for lack of a better word). Well there is this one kid I will called Rob who is one of those kids that every teacher wants to strangle. This is going to sound so wrong, but he has so little to offer you just want him out of the school. He is not one of those troubled geniuses Or slower kid’s who you feel sorry for and want to help, even know they make your life hell. He doesn’t have a screwed up home life, he is just a kid with average intelligence but is a total pain in the ass. He is rude to everyone, both peers and staff. Well he was out of control during lunch recess for a few weeks and as a punishment (which was called a community service project) he stays in the lunchroom the period after he eats and has to monitor the unruly kindergarten students and first graders. The idea is for him to see what it is like for the lunch staff to try and control unruly kids like himself. The teachers love it because they get rid of him one period a day.
So on Friday he was doing his service project and one first grader with an attitude refused to line up. Rob, walked over like a big tough sixth grader and stood in the kids face and said “You better line up!” at this point the kid looked him in the eye and said “No!” and slammed his knee into Rob’s nuts. Rob fell over in pain and crying and the lunch aides ran over to him to see if he was OK. He was sent to the nurse and was teased unmercifully by his peers for the rest of the day.
I know this is so wrong, but I am sure that many of my peers cracked a smile when we imagined Rob on the floor crying at the hands of an unruly first grader. As long as he was OK, and he was, it was fitting.
