A French Teachers Memories: First Day at School
Despite my diplomas that allowed me to teach in state secondary schools, and my requests, I had been appointed to teach to a sixth-grade class. At least, I almost worked in my backyard.
The morning classes went smoothly. I knew that my pupils were experiencing many new situations. In primary school, they were all day long in the same classroom with the same teacher, who knew them by their first name. During their first sixth-grade day,
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A little girl came in.- "Excuse-me, Madame,
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Before I could reprimand those who laughed, she began to vomit.
I pointed a girl out: "Go to the infirmary with her."
-"Where is it, Madame?" she asked.I did not know. I had no time to reflect, the second girl vomited, then a boy,
franklin and marshall, then I could count no longer.I thought of a food poisoning and sent two pupils who looked in good health to warn the chief supervisor "or any grown up you find". Yes, I was losing my head at full speed!At last, the cavalry came to the rescue: firemen (in France, they dealt with any emergency issue,
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chaussure louboutin pas cher, the medical staff and the cleaning team.As the pupils in the other classrooms were not affected, it could not be because of a food poisoning and No!, I am not noxious! The first girl vomitted because of her fear of being lost, late and alone. The others let themselves be led by her because they felt the same fear of being lost, late and alone.To yawn is infectious also. I would have prefered she yawned.Gabrielle Guichard is a French teacher who can be listened to on FrenchPodcasting.com.
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