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The minor setback - that broken A/C – turned out to be not
so minor. The classroom being uninhabitable, the newly formed class and their
freshly appointed transplant teacher embarked on an
Isrealite-wandering-for-40-years-through-the-desert-like adventure.
From one classroom to another to another.
Week after week after week.
By the end of the month, a permanent classroom was secured tucked
away in the 3rd grade hallway. Away from the rest of the fifth
graders. Back with the 'little' kids. But the physical separation only manifested the reality already
there in heart and spirit.
The castaways.
Nevertheless, with the restoration of some semblance of
permanence, there was a huge communal sigh of relief and an overwhelming sense
of gratitude that with all this now behind us we can finally focus on the
reason why children go to school in the first place. The two-month setback became somewhat of a motivation to these ten-year-olds to re-double the effort and prove to the rest of the
world that what these fifth graders went through only made them better and stronger.
The gap that was created, huge as it was, didn't seem unbridgeable.
That’s when we received the second letter from the principal.
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