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Coach B ender


By Ted Schredd

Warning: Teachers, environmentalists and fire marshals may find this offensive.

Sure the theme of is this month is how great it is to learn. Then I bring you a picture of children burning their home work. Now first of all, who am I to judge if this is a good thing or a bad thing? I am just telling you what I saw. Second of all I sure wish I had cool parents that would let me burn my homework when I was young.

Burning things can have a lot of symbolic meaning. As a skier, very often we have a ski burning at the start of the season to make an offering to the Norse Snow God ULLR.

The burning offering was a pleasing, sweet aroma to God (Lev.1:9,13,17)

Keagan, Marc and Jake from Mayfield, Kentucky
So some people burn items to make an offering to the gods and others burn things they don’t like (like witches, bridges or homework).

What was really entertaining was that the teachers that were mean to these kids were cursed every time a new piece of paper was thrown on the fire. It was pretty entertaining to hear Keagan talk about mean Mr. Gillespie, the Grinch who stole his enthusiasm. And then there was Miss Stromgren who never laughed or smiled. And on and on. Discover Fun tips its hat to the three homework burning boys from Kentucky.

Check out these other burning rituals:

Japanese Doll Burning



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