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.
For a month you freed me of— but now I am the center of the whirlpool, the very current my mother warned me of as
Illustration by Jill Kimura Written by Sonia Chintha Edited by Andrea Nevin & Parivash Fahim Goff There is a pinkish-purple mark on the outside where
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
To you Mr. O who taught me Not only how to be a teacher, but also how to live my life the right way. Some