bob went to kindergarden
.......15 kids .. no ego..everyone a friend
.. treated everyone the same
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coloring books periods
.......naps
.......standing on an ant colony at recess
first grade
.......25 kids .. no ego .everyone a friend.....
treated everyone the same
....... unstructured classroom
........desks placed randomly
........painting the sea green and the sky as a blue band on top
second grade
.......25 kids .. some friends
........introduced to reading.
...........invited to sit with 7 others at round table and given a book
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dick and jane and their dog Spot..
................gnat had no knowledge of the written word
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...............and was astonished, it was a miracle
..................he learned to read very fast..
..........school put on a play..
...............he was to be the Master of ceremonies
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given a page of dialogue to learn
....................he had his doubts but after 3 readings he had memorized
......................finally the day of the play and it was a full auditoreum
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when the curtain went up he had no fear
..............................he
began speaking
..............................in the wings a teacher began feeding him his lines
..............................he had to stop and whisper angrily for her to stop
.............................. which she did
...................................he went on as Master of Ceremony flawlessly
........back in class , they now had to sit at their desks arranged in a grid
.............soon the teacher said to not talk while she talked
................well, ok, the problem was she never stopped talking
.....................so after awhile only 3 of us were still talking
...............the teacher asked once again for them to stop talking or else
...................pretty soon Bob alone started talking again
......................."Right" the teacher said and took him back to the bathroom
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with her ruler
..........................she said "this is gonna hurt me more than you"
...................... .........and just touched the stick to his rear
...................totally embarrassed he went back to his chair
.....................listening to the teacher ...boring...boring
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...it took 10 seconds for him to jump the fence
..........................for the first time ever he dove
into....