For all the Teachers I love…

So I made reference to Taylor Mali, but was lazy with the link, but really, I want all of the teachers I adore to get to see this. 

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 15, 2007 | 0 comments

The Good Enough Education

This first week of kindergarten has been exhausting, the long day leaves Søren just ragged, I drive him home and he gets irrational and sob-y over things that wouldn’t normally throw his little extroverted self for a loop, like not being able to sit next to his only friend in the class — in the world! — at the lunch table. I suspect that it’s exhaustion, that the long days and the overwhelming new schedule, this huge place and the inability to guess what’s going to happen next, thehundreds of faces he’s never seen before, the teacher he doesn’t yet have a relationship or trust with — they’re all just getting to him. That it will get easier, soon. I mean I know that, but of course I second-guess myself because...

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Posted by Mara Collins on Sep 13, 2007 | 4 comments