Fourth Grade Trials: A Tale of Classroom Chaos

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It was just my luck to be seated in a row chair uncomfortably close to the front. The volume grew, along with the temperature, every second as more students crowded into a classroom, which only had enough space for the population of one class. As the teachers tried to squeeze more people through the doorway, I twisted around in my seat to scan the faces in the room. I sighed internally and slouched down into my seat when I spotted my friends far from my location. I was on my own. I glanced up at the impossibly slow minute hand on the clock. This was going to be a long day.
If there was any interest in the projects to begin with, it was quickly crushed. Approximately a month earlier, the excitement of a collaboration with a fellow fourth grade class motivated me enough to listen to the directions the teacher gave. Our classes were partnering to research about different countries. This didn't strike me as particularly interesting. Rather, it was the possibility of breaking from the dreadfully routine school day …show more content…

The work was evenly divided into four parts, one for each group member. With my rotten luck, two members magically disappeared the day research started. On the rare occasion that they showed up, productivity was nonexistent. The teachers were stressed, which stressed the students even more. The burden doubled for me and the token remaining member. We bonded over the injustice of having points taken off because our Mexican flag had marker streaks. Aside from missing persons, the teacher conveniently lost papers handed in. At this point, everyone in both classes was discouraged and annoyed. The week before presenting, our group decided to have a piñata as a demonstration. There was three people present in our group that day. The usually absent member volunteered to fill the piñata in the library. After a suspiciously long time, a teacher went to check on him. Turned out, he was sitting on the carpet eating the

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