I cannot remember if my fourth grade teacher explained the star system the day of or a few days after the misfits and good kids table arrangements. However, I do remember that she explained to us that to get into the "good group", we would have to earn a certain amount of stars. To earn the stars, you would have to have good behavior or good grades. You could keep progress with how many stars you earned very easily....the star board was located right behind the teacher's desk.
The star board wasn't updated very often. Most kids that were misfits (like myself) stayed in the misfit groups for weeks at a time. Likewise, the groups were updated every few weeks or so. In late December (or early January), I came up with the name "Misfits and Good Kids". It came out of randomness, and it really stuck. I even had a last in my room at one point of which students were misfits and which students were good kids.
My dream was to create a book series called "Misfits and Good Kids" and let everyone know about the misfits and good kids tables, with some events tweaked and other events made up so that the books would become bestseller and top notch. In April 2009, that dream came true. I began the Misfits and Good Kids series with a novel published on Lulu.com (a self publishing website) called "Misfits and Good Kids: The Split".
-Epiphany Thomas.
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