True tales of from Mount Auburn School
On a normal day in 1970 something I was teaching 5th grade mathematics first thing in the morning. Class was going as usual with kids messing with their pencils and playing a game they called pencil break in chich they tried to bread their pencils daily so they would have nothing to write with. One 11 year old kept messing with something in her mouth. She was at the back of the room and I could not see what she was messing with from the front of the classroo. Suddenly she looked in total shock... Sign in to see full entry.