First Grade Learning

 My husband, Burton, had Miss Wassom for his first grade teacher in Mason City, Iowa  Years later, while doing my student teaching at Mason City Junior College, the same Miss Wassom was my supervisor. She would say when these six-year-olds would stand up to speak in front of the class, "Please begin with saying if this is a true story of a story you made up." The students did.  Ah, that everyone, including particularly leaders today, were taught that in first grade.