From classroom to lip sync battle
From discipline and set up and chaos in the sweltering room dripping with conversations about civil rights activists and coding
From cake to boisterous laughter in a too small room to Rachel Zoe in a cafeteria dance
A revolving door of hats
Solving problems, calming anxieties, handing out consequences, building up self esteems, dancing, singing, cheering, modeling
All in one day.
Friday the thirteenth
Sonia Chintha is an Indian American writer who lives in the Washington DC area. She blogs, writes poetry, and fiction. She is also an English teacher who believes that our experiences teach us more than any test. She is the founder and co-editor of Good Little Girls.
You hurl lies again and again -— with earnest eyes that pierce through mine and lie easily without fear And break— the trust I value
Period one: Close eyes to meditate with a circle of eleven eighth graders, hear a giggle, slide eyes open and supervise with stern looks. Try
Fire limned with resentment, eating up the air until I choke— this is my anger, gaslit, bewildered. No longer able to tell who should be
Year one: survival. Year two: comfort, security. Year three: change it all.