Why Am I Going To A Different Classroom To Read And Write?

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My life as a young student had always seemed confusing since I felt that I did well enough in school that I didn't need any additional help. So my question as a child was why need to go to a different classroom to help me read and write? This is what set my mindset through most of grade school.
It first started when I was in kindergarten. I was pulled from class and went down the hall to a small room about twice the size of a small closet. Other students and myself sat around a table learning not to make our words “Float”. It wasn't that hard to get the concept of writing the alphabet within the right lines on the practice pages.
In third grade I moved, but at that school I was pulled out of class again, to learn how to make sure I read the questions given on a test correctly. We sat around a table again and again learning different techniques to be a better student, basically student 101.
I moved back only after half a year at the other district to my first one, but I went to a different school. At my new school they felt that I needed more practice on my reading skills. The group I was put in, not only extended to making me better at reading words out loud, it also helped me have less of a slur. A classroom far away from my own, …show more content…

In regular classrooms, kids are such a distraction. Since they don't want to be there they think why would anyone else really enjoy or want to learn the curriculum. I never had that problem with advanced classes. Yes it wasn't all enjoyable, the work was harder and the standards were set higher. The thing I loved about it was, we could get through the class without having the teacher redirect someone multiple times. It just always sounds like the teacher had terrets “You guys will be writing a, Gerome stop it, essay about…”. It get’s to be very obnoxious when someone interrupts on a regular basis without recognizing their

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