Re: teachers' memories

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:54:14 +0100

At 22.16 -0800 97-10-28, diane celia hodges wrote about painful memories
from school...

Diane:

carrying

embodied memories
of being scared
into my mind

of my firstgrade peers
I will forever be in the way of
some boisterous runner on the schoolyard asphalt
to whom I am invisible

embodied memories
of being used as a paragon of the Reader
and placed as a calming buffer
next to the most unruly boy...

I can NEVER forget

I keep returning to the place of crime:
enter the classroom as a teacher

and I run away
screaming inside

as soon as I can

perhaps next time?

Eva