“It keeps the rest of the class waiting.”
“It gives the school a bad name.”
Yes, and all this is unkind, and if unkind——?
“It is impolite.”
LESSON 9.
Purpose.—To show that punctuality of attendance at school is a sign of good manners.
Method.—A contrast drawn and lesson deduced.
The Lesson.
It is not a little boy in our room of whom I am about to tell you. I hope there is not such a child in our room. But there is a boy somewhere who has to be called and called in the morning, and then he yawns, and takes another nap, and puts off getting out of bed as long as he possibly can. He is late at breakfast, late in doing his morning’s work, and late at school. He goes into his school-room after the rest are at their work, and disturbs the teacher and the children, feels very unhappy, and perhaps gets a mark that he does not like.