Author: 8805935588059355
Date: Jan 19, 2008 01:24
Anyone know how it is to go to school for the first time. Teachers
live through this experience twice; and the second time is not the
less impressive.
Despite my diplomas that allowed me to teach in state secondary
schools and my requests, I had been appointed to teach to a sixth-
grade class. At least, I almost worked in my backyard. The morning
classes went smoothly. I knew that my pupils were experiencing many
new situations. In primary school, they were all day long in the same
classroom with the same teacher, who knew them by their first name.
During their first sixth-grade day, they met a different teacher at
each hour, each time in another classroom that was to be found among
hundreds. They were mainly concerned by finding and reaching the right
room on time. Any of them would have been happy to recognize and to
sit beside the girl or the boy they did not want to be seen with last
year, when the world was not that large.
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