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Published - Friday, December 05, 2008

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Marry Me, Miss H: Hintgen students spell out simple request for teacher, beau


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Hintgen Elementary School kindergartners got a lesson in love Thursday.

At Ben Becker’s request, a dozen kids clutched letters that asked their student teacher, Corrie “Miss H” Hopfensperger: WILL U MARRY ME?
Ben Becker proposes to Hintgen student teacher Corrie hoffensperfer with the help from her students. Dick Riniker photo

After accepting the one-knee proposal of her boyfriend of nearly two years, Hopfensperger, 22, said “I am so surprised. You are supposed to be getting your hearing checked.”

But the exam was just a ploy by their teacher, Shannon Bills, to get the students out of the room and finish organizing the grand scheme with Becker, 24, that had been in the works since Sunday.

“The kids are just tickled to be part of it,” Bills said.

Hopfensperger said she was clueless that Becker was planning to propose.

They’d selected the ring about a month ago but that was as far as their engagement plans had gone.

Becker wanted to propose in a place that was special to his fiancee.

“She cares about teaching,” he said. “I wanted to do it in her classroom.”

After the kids gawked at her ring, they toasted with apple juice and celebrated with fudge striped cookies.
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family 1st wrote on Dec 7, 2008 2:17 PM:

" Way to go La Crosse Tribune for getting outside of main stream negativity. To the nay-sayers, how about for one day you try smiling at every person you see, young or old, for an entire day and see if it changes your foul disposition. Thank heavens our children are exposed to opposite sex marriages by our educators. Love is alive and well. "

thinkaboutit2x wrote on Dec 7, 2008 2:13 PM:

" hey Teiresias you are obviously intolerant of heterosexuals. kids should learn that it is ok for a man and a woman to get married, if it wernt for this none of us would be here. this is not a waste of any kind of tax dollars, this is a happy story and some of you people should be ashamed of yourselves for not seeing this. "

Simon Said wrote on Dec 5, 2008 4:47 PM:

" Some people's kids I tell ya...there are just people in this world who refuse to be happy unless they're griping. This means the groom-to-be has just made Miss H happy as well as a couple spoilsports who inhabit the comments of the La Crosse Trib. Congratulations to the happy couple! Mrs. Bills goes so far over and above for her students and their families I'm sure she's owed a LOT more than she 'spent' anyway. "

Mr. Bigglesworth wrote on Dec 5, 2008 2:35 PM:

" Hey Plies girl...just because Plie put your engagement ring in a hush puppy @ Red Lobster when he asked you doesn't mean you have to be bitter about someone else's creative way of thinking. "

Teiresias wrote on Dec 5, 2008 2:32 PM:

" This is a completely inaproriate use of taxpayer dollars.
These children are being indoctrinated into opposite-sex marriage!
(snark!) "

ettrickres wrote on Dec 5, 2008 1:59 PM:

" glad this was the front page story....way to go tribune! ignore the real issues.... "

plies's girl wrote on Dec 5, 2008 1:23 PM:

" oh wow why would you use kids to help you ash her. he needs to GET A LIFE "

dm420 wrote on Dec 5, 2008 12:51 PM:

" DutchBoy,

Get a life! "

What Goes Around... wrote on Dec 5, 2008 11:44 AM:

" Oh DutchBoy, puh-lease.  These kids DID learn something from this experience that many will not learn at home...cooperation, kindness, sensitivity, and the joy/honor of doing something for someone else, with nothing expected in return (among other things). They learned positive LIFE lessons. Tell me, how do you reimburse for that??? Sounds like the district owes him... "

philly wrote on Dec 5, 2008 9:41 AM:

" Congratulations.......but at least give credit to the movie "Meet the Parents" for the idea. "

Just thinking... wrote on Dec 5, 2008 9:22 AM:

" (Just goes to show that there is always at least one spoil-sport)
Anyways, Congratulations, and all the best for your future together! "

DutchBoy wrote on Dec 5, 2008 9:16 AM:

" Cute story. But in times where the school budgets are stretched to the maximum, this doesn't seem like a good use of school resources. I can only hope that young Mr. Becker is going to reimburse the district for lost time and salaries. Much less, make up the learning time lost by students. "

Mack wrote on Dec 5, 2008 9:08 AM:

" gooey "

Katie wrote on Dec 5, 2008 7:17 AM:

" Congratulations to both of you! I love hearing sweet engagement stories. "

girlfriend wrote on Dec 5, 2008 6:29 AM:

" how sweet! the kids (and Miss H) will remember this forever! "

EXERCISE wrote on Dec 5, 2008 6:00 AM:

" A positive story? Refreshing! "

nikki wrote on Dec 5, 2008 5:56 AM:

" Love this story and congrats to the couple! It's nice to see a great story in the papers. "


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