***>>>Hypothetically, who would Andy choose to defend if Helen unfairly gave Opie double the future homework if he done his homework the night before?<<<
I think if Opie had done his homework, yet didn't raise his hand to show that he DID do it, Andy would defend Helen.*** What would the point be for Opie not raising his hand? I don't think he'd work all night on something and give up quality TV/playing time, then blow off his own hard work just out of peer pressure. All Opie had to do to state his case anyway was simply show or turn in his completed homework. Even if Opie did fail to raise his hand out of peer pressure and Andy backed up the "double homework," I think he would still send a note to Helen saying her handling was rather harsh. I think Andy would decide in Opie's favor. Remember, he got into the whole mess with Helen in the first place because Opie complained about all he had to learn and Andy sided with him. He may have screwed up in the past (gung ho to punish and yell at Opie before realizing he, say, was taking stuff back to the sporting goods store to return the man's wallet money) but in this one, just the evidence of the completed homework would be really tough for Helen to overcome, and her argument, if she stuck to it, would likely be pure emotion. More likely she'd back down if Opie did, indeed, do his homework. I can't imagine her knowingly punishing someone who did their homework as ordered, or sticking by such punishment, because it would send the message that doing the right thing is worthless. Most like the "all the boys get double homework" thing was a rash decision by a young teacher, and as we've all discussed, Helen is prone to a fault to rash judgments and reactions. By the way we used to have a teacher back in elementary school who constantly punished boys more often than girls, and once made all the boys write sentences for being "too loud during P.E." (we were outside at the time we were "so loud"). The girls got to watch a film and weren't allowed to discuss it with us. Years later I found out the film was a hygiene film explaining a "change of life" young girls would go through, and the PE teacher just wanted the boys out of the way and punishment was the only thing she could think of. So I wander if surreptiously punishing boys for being boys was a common thing back in the '60s and '70s? Dixon _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
