Teaching is a different ballgame than it was even ten years ago. One thing we've talked about a lot in my class this year is how to become self-sufficient; how to solve problems when I am unavailable. Make no mistake, in any class with more than 30 students the teacher is unavailable more than available. It's true. When a kid has the ability to figure it out no matter what it is, they are a step ahead of every other somebody in that class.
So, when Peyton picked up a knife to cut up her own orange today, I let her. A knife with a serrated edge, no less. I did cut the last few slices for her, only because she was holding the piece with one hand and trying to cut it with the other. Yikes.
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