Do not ask a child, who has done some misdemeanor, whether or not he did
it; especially, if you already know that he did it.
Miss Simons should have said privately to Forrest: “I saw you drawing on
your desk. These desks and this schoolhouse belong to everybody who
lives near here. We can benefit all of them by keeping the desks and the
entire room as neat and clean as possible. See if you can not get the
marks off of your desk. I will show you how. We want the next child who
uses it to find it just as nicely kept as you found it.”