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My Responsibility
The Player(s) I watched [the student] like I always did. After a couple of days around the students you teach a teacher’s eye will automatically gravitate to certain students. My eye was always…
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The Best of Intentions
The Player(s) My intentions were good. I’d taught [the student]’s siblings. I knew the family. There was a very loose casual connection between the family and me – friends and/or relatives in common…
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When the Teacher Makes a Mistake
The Player(s) We were still in the first few days of school. It was [the student]’s first time to volunteer for anything. We were talking through how to do an assignment. Sadly, I…
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The Student Sleeps
I watched the eyes stare for a little too long and begin to droop. [the student] had fallen asleep. I didn’t wake [the student] up. The Player(s) [the student] was quiet, well-mannered, well-liked,…
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Ineffectual Bureaucracy
[pronoun] wasn’t even in my elementary school class that year. [pronoun]’s teacher came up to me during one of our fairly frequent passing meetings in the hall. My colleague asked: “Would you take…
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The Ants Adjustment
I had a hard time getting [pronoun] situated in the classroom. Classmates were disrupted. [pronoun] would manage not to alienate or annoy those who sat close for a day or two but, in…
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Self-Injury to Avoid Learning
Would [pronoun] really go that far just to avoid learning? The Setup My eyes were drawn to [pronoun], as they generally were. If something were to go wrong in the room, if there…