The poem depicts a first grade student who is punished by his teacher for not being able to read. The teacher throws the boy outside of the classroom. The boy stands alone, thinking of his grandmother in the hospital. He knows the letters make up stories but cannot read them himself. The punishment does not make the boy eager to learn and measures a student's skills too narrowly. A child's talents should be allowed to develop naturally rather than through imposition or punishment. Teachers should consider each student as an individual.

1. FirstGrade – Standing in the Hall
- Cheryl Savageau
This poem depicts a real picture of a classroom in
which a poor student is punished by the teacher. By
showing ill practice, a punishment that poet strongly
speaks for the reformations of the education system. In
fact, punishment has got negative effect on the learners
and teaching learning system is incomplete with
punishment.
According to the poem the boy couldn’t read and
the teacher threw him out side of the class. He stood there
and remember his grandmother who told him the stories
but how she was at hospital. He wondered when she
would be back at home. The boy knew that the letters told
the stories but unfortunately he could not read them.
Besides everyone pointed out him as a stupid and a
hopeless and the teacher punished him. He always waited
for the bell to ring or the teacher calling him back in the
class. Despite the punishment he still saw the signs of
hope looking at the spider webbing its net and the sun
making the life perishable. He felt a kind of
communication with them and felt himself distinct from
him teacher.
The poet may be trying to tell us that punishment
never makes a student eager to learn. Besides a student's
skills should not be measured in the narrow concept there
are obviously many skills. Through which a child can
shape his future. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the child

2. who can't read is really hopeless and stupid even he is
poor in studies he can do the best in other field. Therefore
the child must be left to learn in the natural environment
and according to his will.
In conclusion, it is about the need for teacher to consider a
student an individual. Different individuals have different
interests background, intelligence. Imposition of any
learning should be avoided. The students should be
reflected in matters of creativity, their language, cultural
background and so on.