Rebellious Children in Deuteronomy

It's been a long time since the last blog post, so to restart this thing, I'm going to open with one of the funniest quotes that I've heard this year.

As most of you know, Mr. Xanders is no longer the glorified babysitter for 7th period study hall/ FLVS. He is now the 7th grade Bible teacher in 7th period, and his kids are just a joy to teach! Nod your head now if you understood that "subtle" sarcasm (Gabrielle Gardner: your head need not move.) Anyway, one of his students was talking in class incessantly one afternoon. Now, as we all know, Nate's motto is "stop talking" so you can see how this never ending babble would be a problem. Of course, he told this student to stop talking. It didn't work. So, he told this student again, repeatedly to stop talking. When it didn't happen though, he wrote said student a detention. The student was given the opportunity to get the detention repealed if this student would simply write the week's Bible verse 15 times. The student, apparently failing to comprehend this task, wrote the Bible verse only 9 times, and so, the detention remained.

About a day later, Mr. Xanders received an e-mail from the parent of this student questioning why he had written her child up. In simplistic terms, Nate proceeded to respond the e-mail explaining that 9 is not equal to 15. To make sure that the e-mail didn't come across to harsh, he had Connie proofread it. She suggested that he add a Bible verse after his name to make him seem caring. He then suggested to himself that he use, "That quote in Deuteronomy about rebellious children" which I found to be Deuteronomy 21:20-21a, which reads:

"and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones."

He then said, after laughing about his thought for a while:

"That would be the greatest thing ever to be fired for. 'Your child should be stoned. XOXO -- Nate.'"

Now, personally, I think that if he had included that reference, the parent of the child would have gotten the idea. The verse was not included, and the student is probably still talking, but the quote was indeed wall worthy.