Mrs. Plumly

Biography

Timeline

1. In fifth grade

   Note-passing punishment reduced

   A class vote imposed five thousand written repetitions of “I will not pass notes.” Her mother spoke with Mrs. Plumly and had the punishment reduced to five hundred.

   Dee's Chapter

Stories mentioning Mrs.

• A Mother's Appeal for a Note-Passing SentenceCaught passing a note asking a friend to play jacks, Delores faced a classroom debate and vote on her punishment during a unit on the judicial system. The class sentenced her to write “I will not pass notes” five thousand times. Before going to card club, her mother spoke with Mrs. Plumly and reduced the sentence to five hundred repetitions. Delores says she never passed another note.

Referenced in

• Dee's Chapter — MY EAR