For a period of over three weeks, the JK teacher was absent. You see, she is pregnant and several children came down with hand, foot and mouth disease. While the disease is not dangerous to adults, it can be extremely harmful and even fatal to infants and developing embryos. So the JK teacher took a leave of absence from the classroom in order to ride out the germfest in a safe environment.
During that absence, the children "changed". Some of the quiet ones grew boisterous. Some of the noisy ones quieted down a little (or perhaps they appeared less so because their peers had become more outgoing...). In any case, the noise level had become something to behold.
But yesterday, the JK teacher returned. Simone knew it even before she entered the classroom. How?
It was QUIET! Unbelievably quiet in the classroom. The teacher divided the kids into groups of two and sent them off on missions around the classroom and they did it. All the woman needed was a magic wand to give credence to the idea that magic really does exist! Because those kids who'd been seemingly impossible to control were now doing precisely what she told them to do.
Totally inspiring. Totally.
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