PeRSePOLiS #4

"EVERY SiTUATION HAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LAUGHS"[Pg.97]
iN THiS PART OF THE BOOK MARJi && HER CLASSMATES WERE MAKiNG FUN OF ALL THE THiNGS THAT THE TEACHERS TOLD THEM TO DO. SOME THInGS THEY HAD TO DO INCLUDED KNIT WINTER HOODS FOR THE SOLDIERS.THEY EVEN HAD TO DECORATED THE CLASSROOM FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION. MARJi AND THE GiRLS WENT AROUND MAKiNG FUN OF THE MANY TASKS THE TEACHERS HAD THEM DOiN. I THINK THAT EVERY CHILD HAS HAD TO DO SOM TYPE OF TASK THAT THEY THOUGH WAS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. THE TEACHER GOT FED UP WITH THEIE MESS AND TOLD THEIR PARENTS THAT THEY WERE BEING DISRESPECTFUL AND OUT OF CONTROL. SHE HAD THE NERVE TO TELL THEM THAT THEY DIDNT RAISE THEIR KIDS RIGHT. THATS THE ONE THING THAT A TEACHER SHOULD NEVER SAY TO ANOTHER PARENT. THAT GETS THEM REALLY UPSET. I DO ADMIT THAT THE KIDS ARE SO YOUNG AND MOST OF THE LESSONS THAT THE TEACHERS TEACH ABOUT THE REVOLUTION I HIGHLY DOUBT THE KIDS CARE. IT ALREADY BAD ENOUGH THt they make THEM ALL WEAR THE SAME THING WHICH DOESNT LET THEM SHOW ANY OF THEIR PERSONALITY OR CREATIVITY AND THEN YOU GOT THEM DECORATING AND MAKING THINGS THAT WONT EVEN TEACH THEM ANYTHING. SO THE QUOTE WOULD BE SAYING THAT WHEN THERE IS A TIME WHERE YOU ARE DOING A TASK THAT YOU THINK IS BORING OR UNNESSESARY YOU COULD ALWAYS TURN AROUND AND MAKE A JOKE ABOUT IT! ;)