First Aid The students in Mr. Mandabach's ninth-grade health class ...

Consequences“Okay, class, it’s time to turn in your spelling crossword puzzles,” Ms. Wyattannounces to her sixth-grade class.“But I didn’t finish mine,” Nicholas complains.“Neither did I,” adds Derek.“Of course not!” Eldrick shouts out. “You guys were way too busy talking aboutCindy Crawford!”“Well, you have to admit, she is something to talk about,” Nicholas retorts.Ms. Wyatt shakes her head in mock disgust. “Apparently puberty is settling inhere, isn’t it class? Especially for a couple of boys I know.” The class giggles, then shesays, “Nick and Derek, I’d like you to finish your work when you have some free timeafter lunch.” The two boys nod their heads to indicate that they will.Assigned to groups of three, Ms. Wyatt’s students have been working on theirpapier-mâché relief maps of North America for most of the afternoon. But one group—Molly, Helen, and Lori—has been so busy talking about their favorite television showthat they have put little effort into completing their map.“Hey, you guys,” Molly urges, “we’d better get busy. We only have 20 moreminutes left before we have to go to music.”“Ah, don’t worry about it,” Helen tells her.“Yeah, we can always finish tomorrow,” Lori addsMs. Wyatt flicks the lights to get her students’ attention. “Class, I forgot to tellyou about the bonus today. The first group to finish its relief map will have 15 minutes offree time this afternoon.”“All right!” several of the children shout.“Why didn’t she tell us earlier?” Helen whispers to her friends.“It drives me crazy when she does stuff like that,” Lori whispers back. “I mean,we could have worked harder if we’d known that there was a reason to get done on time.”“Okay, class, it’s time to put your relief maps on the back table to dry. As you allknow by now, Meesha’s group finished its map first, so that group has earned the freetime I promised.” The class politely claps for Meesha’s group.“Ms. Wyatt, we didn’t get our map done,” Molly calls out.“That’s ‘cause you guys were too busy gossiping,” Samantha teases. The classlaughs.“Samantha, it’s not nice to tease your classmates,” Ms. Wyatt says firmly, thenturns to the three procrastinators. “ But girls, I’m not particularly sympathetic. When Igive you an assignment, I expect you to do it. I want the three of you to stay here untilyou finish it.”“But we’ll miss music,” whines Helen.“You should have thought about that before you decided to goof off during yourgroup time.”“But Derek and Nicholas got extra time to finish their work this morning,” Mollypoints out.“Yeah, it isn’t fair if they get extra time to complete their work and we don’t,”Helen adds.“I don’t have any extra time to give you,” counters Ms. Wyatt.