Tag: Kindergarten
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Jones tree
Jones is exhausted after school. Beneath his bright, yellow backpack he wobbles up the street. So small beneath his outsized potential. He scans the horizon for the ice cream truck but it is not there. Like the brave warrior he is, he brushes this disappointment aside. He will show me his tree, his favourite tree.…
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Kindergarten pickup
The parents line-up by a chain link fence behind a big, flowering bush. The teacher lets us into the school one by one or in pairs. When it’s my turn I step into the hallway and can see into the classroom. All the children are sitting in front of their cubbies, knapsacks on their backs,…