Several years ago, when I was teaching at a middleschool, a girl sent me a message. She found someone write a very1messageon her locker. She made a picture of it and then sent it to me asking for2.

A few hours later, I noticed that on herInstagram she had posted that picture and asked if anyone3whodid that.

Well, the following day, the girl came to mewith a boy. She showed me a4she had received. It was a heartfeltapology. I asked her if she knew who had done it, and the boy repliedembarrassedly(尴尬地), "It was me. I don't know why I did it,but I know it was5. So I wrote her this note. I6wantedto do something to try to make up for my meanness."

My heart felt so full of7forthis boy. I told him how8he was to come forward and how amazing itwas that he did something9to correct his mistake. I10thegirl and asked her if she could forgive him. Without hesitation, she said, "Yes."

I think middle school students are not littlechildren any more, and not grown-ups yet. It is normal that they make mistakes.Every day I remind myself that although I am an educator, my students trulylove me.

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A kind of Happiness in Rongjiang—Watching "Cun Chao"

Every year around August, millions of teens take their parents to stores to buy new clothes for the start of the school year. Not every parent can a{#blank#}1{#/blank#} this, and some teens are forced to go to school in the same clothes they had last year. The obvious differences in clothes c{#blank#}2{#/blank#} differences among students. Here comes the {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (simple) solution: school uniforms. 

I know from personal experience and surveys that wearing uniforms creates a s{#blank#}4{#/blank#} of equality among teens. 

From the sixth grade until I graduated from high school, I attended a school that r{#blank#}5{#/blank#} students to wear uniforms. The uniform was very plain: dark brown shoes, green-brown pants, and a white shirt. The uniform left little r{#blank#}6{#/blank#}for any kind of self-expression, especially through clothes. 

However, I learned how to stand out by expressing myself, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} my personality, art, and sports. I did not know I could draw until the sixth grade. I also would never have learned of my musical a{#blank#}8{#/blank#} if it were not for my desire to find ways to express myself. Uniforms taught me that I was myself, except what I {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(wear) . 

Uniforms help provide a better e{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(education) experience for all students no matter what race, culture, or economic class. Wearing uniforms is good for both schools and students. 

Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it with water from a well. After they their work, he left them, saying, "when the sun is d{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, I will come and see yow work."

At last one of them said, "What's the use of doing this foolish work? We can never f{#blank#}2{#/blank#} the basket."The other man answered," That is none of your business." The first man said. "You may do as you like, but I am not going to work at nothing so f{#blank#}3{#/blank#} ."He threw down his bucket and went away. The other man said no w{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, and kept on carrying water. At last the well was almost e{#blank#}5{#/blank#}. 

As he poured the last bucket of water into the basket, he saw a bright thing in it. He picked it up. It was a beautiful gold ring. Just then the king came. As soon as he saw the ring, he knew that he had found the kind of man he w{#blank#}6{#/blank#}. He told him to keep the ring for himself. "You have done so well in this little thing, " he said," that now I know I can b{#blank#}7{#/blank#} you with many things."