‘Tables Test’
“Mum!!!” I don’t want to go to school. I’ve got a tables test today. I’ve got a sore tummy I think, and a sore throat, “that’s what I’ll say.”
Good I’m not going to school, this is going to be fun. I’m going to watch TV, and lie out in the sun.
But mum says bed for you boy, and stay there all the day. I hate to go to
By JODIE RICHARDS, aged 10, of Ohoka School, Kaiapoi bed, when I could go out and play. I’m bored stiff, staying in bed at home. I’d rather be at school, than being here all alone. I want to go to school mum, and be a pest and pain. I don’t like staying home, and driving Mum insane.
Let me go to school Mum, I don’t feel sick anymore. My tummy hasn’t got a pain, and my throat’s not sore. When’s Dad coming home mum, Let’s have a game of chess, I want to go to school Mum, I’m not sick anymore, I confess. School will be finished by now, can I have something to eat. I’m going to listen to a record, this music’s really neat..
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Press, 1 December 1987, Page 16
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