They Made Me Laugh

“Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!” Arthur C. Clark in an article in Omni Magazine. Challenging, audacious, creative and irrepressible—all describe of BJ’s fifth grade class as well as her four offspring. Toss in a personality that sees life through a prism of laughter and it describes BJ, too. But trouble her new principal feels threatened by her irreverent attitude. With cell phones, pc’s and the internet still in the future, she instills a love for learning. With imagination and common sense, she establishes order in her classroom and sometimes even at home in situations as varied as removing a ten year old student sitting on her foot to solving a dilemma King Solomon would take a pass who mops up the toilet’s gross over-flow—the one responsible for the mess or the sibling on bathroom duty that day. She listens for the words children cannot voice, knowing “There are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.” Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet , On Talking.