FUJIWARA-SENSEI<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I initiated it. Doesn't seem right to let her take the fall. Nothing more."</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><strong>"I agree Tanaka-san, it does not seem right to let one of you take all the blame. Both of you are noble in standing up for the other. That's to be commended."</strong>I glanced across at the new arrival.<strong>"However, you have behaved in an inappropriate manner in my class. Takeshita-san, you have been here less than an hour. This is your very first lesson. What am I supposed to conclude about the kind of student you are when you enter a new school and at once do this? I think this may be a simple lapse of your usual good judgment. At least I am going to believe so in this instance. I will not advise Kiminikobe-<em>kouchou-sensei</em> of this and so your family will not hear of it either. However…"</strong>I waved the piece of paper in front of her nose,<strong>"In future you will conduct your… friendships… elsewhere and <em>not</em> in my class."</strong><br/><br/>I turned to Tanaka-san,<strong>"And you, young lady, know better. I know you do. You're a bright girl and I will not tolerate lapses of concentration behind my back."</strong><br/><br/>I folded the piece of paper and put it away.<br/><br/><strong>"In future Takeshita-san I wish to see you sit in a desk away from Tanaka-san. No more note passing. And both of you will write out five hundred lines: "I attend classes to learn, and not to chatter to my friends." And I want that hand written, don't give me a copy-paste job from your computers."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"Come to my office after dinner this evening, you should have made a good start by then, I want to see how much you have done."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"You may go."</strong><br/><br/><hr/>[<em>kouchou-sensei</em>- head teacher or principal.]