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Letters
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replied with letters of their own, they included class pictures.
“There weren’t any cute guys,” said McPeak, as if she hardly had expected there to be, then added, “The pictures weren’t that close up. But they are basically just like us. The look and dress like us, and listen to the same music.”
McPeak and Buchholz had to ask Daves about certain words that the Nottingham students used, like “Mum” for Mom and “bob,” which means “bad” and “ace” means “good.”
The letters, for the most part, appear to be unvarnished for the truths they tell. One Mellish Comprehensive student, Haley Butters, after writing the lowdown on her pets Smokey and Peanut and her dog Pepsi, wrote, “My school is called Henry Mellish Comprehensive. It is OK here but it is quite boring.”
Daves showed a visitor photographs of the Henry Mellish Comprehensive school that she has tacked to the classroom walls. She likes to think that the association with the children in Nottingham has also given her Rappahannock students a small lesson in geography and culture.
“Me being here is a cultural exchange,” she said. Rather than just pretending to be another American teacher, she has brought some of England over with her and introduced it into the classroom.
One difference among others that Daves has noted in the year she has taught in Rappahannock, the first of at least two years, her students here “are concerned more about grades academically,” she says. “But that may be the location.” And perhaps even news to the parents.
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