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By BONNIE PRICE LOFTON . * ' R«ppth»iwocli Newt CoatrtbatiDg Writer , ’ Editors note: The first half of this article appeared in the Jan. 25 issue of the Rappahannock News.
In the first part of this article, I described my search for the “right” school for my 6-year-old son, James. After I visited 21 classes at seven schools and talked to innumerable people, my husband and
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I settled on a lively kindergarten class taught by an exemplary teacher at Rappahannock Elementary School.
But the decision weighs heavily on me — mainly because I look ahead and see that my son is heading for 12 years within classroom walls. • “Why do you feel uneasy?” ask my parents. “You turned out fine, didn’t you?”
Yes, but I can recall almost nothing about the hours, the weeks, the years, I spent in the classroom. What I DO recall is running at 3 p.m. to the school library where my mother worked when she wasn’t teaching English, getting in a comer with a pile of books, and losing myself in them.
My brother, sister and I all liked to write — probably because Mom took pleasure in our essays, lauding our ideas while gently correcting our grammar.
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