Rose Sayah
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But her enthusiasm for teaching really wasn't able to break this malaise that had settled on me in fourth grade.
I got to school late a lot.
I would sit in the back of the class and doodle or just look out the window.
I turned in quizzes.
Sometimes I didn't go down to eat lunch with the other kids and I didn't go out to recess.
Egan took each of these challenges one at a time.
She brought me up to sit in front of the room so I couldn't drift off.
She tried to encourage me.
And then she just started asking me, why was I doing these things?
Why were these things happening?
And I didn't answer her.
And one day I turned in a spelling test blank.
So she told me I had to stay after school.
And after school, she said to me that since I hadn't taken the test, I could grade all the other tests.
So I waited for the answer key.
And she said, oh, no, no.