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A Teacher’s First Day in the Classroom after Hurricane Sandy

This post, by Launa Schweizer a teacher in Brooklyn, New York is lump-in-your-throat essential reading.

Schweizer writes: I realized: those children didn’t need my lessons. Not right away. Instead, they needed school as a refuge. Refuge from dark stairways and flashlights. Refuge from schlepping wet cardboard boxes out of basements. Refuge from a week of cold dinners and no showers. Our school was dry, warm, well-lighted and normal, and they needed simply to be there.

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