it had happened within a school year so many changes that had taken so much out of there once stood the piano special projects built around the world in which children live but kept their minds brimming with ideas but all this is past reasons how does a teacher explain her reasons for resigning and her classmates learning to read and write and spell creating their own stories about field trips into the city learning what it means to live in a community learning how people work and live together one group practice using the telephone a more advanced group conducted a simple experiment in the transmission of  a third group practice using the telephone direct was part of the school day where we've been studying communications we've learned a great deal not only about the telephone but also about other ways of sending and receiving messages now what do you think would be a good way to show each other just how much we've projects i've worked help the children express their feelings and i then of course there was time for functional drilling the three are small working groups parting to each child some doing silent rating a more advanced group working out dramatization of a story they had read while using special teaching aids this roberts gave extra attention to those in need of help with their reading that's right now can you tell want twenty four children all different physically mentally emotionally children who could not be taught all in the same way learning was all related to the day's experience with writing and spelling part of daily class responsibility tire kathy enjoying her work and learning but needing help with her reading a bit anxious to please getting recognition  needing to be pulled out of a shell joey bad eating greater challenge to prevent boredom this was the classroom twenty four pupils with time for each child time to know and understand each boy and girl to handle and guide them in different ways along a new path suddenly almost overnight a quiet suburb became a small city just as the community changed so democrats one by one the class projects were removed to make room for more that more and more as the months went by for a time as robert tried to continue a small group were reluctant to give up helping children with individual various elements were working against restricted space the sheer physical closeness of one child to another lack of classroom project to occupy their attention once they had completed their son nothing do no place to go and so to control the crowd to their attention ms roberts was forced to return to home structure teaching the mass instead of the individual teaching by rote with no relation to everyday problems with neither time nor opportunity to build on children's interests and experiences teaching no longer stimulating to the pupils or the teacher but there were other losses to losses in learning time waiting for help waiting while others received attention waiting until next robert found time to give them the attention they need an eagerness beings slowly start at the weekly staff meeting teachers trying to find solutions for what was happening were forced to work with groups that are much too large to slow learners and getting the attention they need and the bright under god i've been trying competitive games with my group but even games can keep these older boys quiet very low i had to postpone our parents conference in fact when i simply couldn't work it hearing you're right and it gets worse every day but for the time being we've got to live with it doing the best job we can even if it's a bad job we're all carrying a pretty impossible load miss gibson i'm probably not doing the best job of principal can but i'm trying the best i  the best a teacher knows how with playground supervision all duty japa tyria monitor cross for god morning and afternoon working late each day to catch up yet test papers and reports pile up here's another that sounds we need to work on that so i think of the difference between needs to sound jennifer can you give us a word with avoided as she tried louise roberts knew that something other happened to weaken for her meaning the word something had corrupted the value of her chosen career but was that kathy's mother that's where the doubt in their mind it because in kathy williams home alone their meaning while we were reading sleeping beauty in the second grade you can say oh dear but if jim were alive he'd be doing something about it i keep telling you it's her teacher that miss roder which is a good teacher kathy don't bother your little head about this it's not your fault at the rate she's learning just try getting her into a decent college when she grows up with their crowded conditions picking their students margaret if you have any interest in your daughter's education of course like every mother you want the best for your child very best for katherine but there are other cares on your mind slipshod as the weeks go by you realize something is happening  kathy in front of all those children i was never so humiliated maybe ellen's right maybe you've been neglecting cathy and that tiny feeling of panic that your child is receiving a second rate education turns to anger anger looking for a target all that sunday you try to call miss roberts when you fail to return your irritation grow and suddenly your mind is made up the next day at work you get in touch with a member of the school board with whom you are acquainted and arrange to see him at his home to him you state your case against miss roberts can say i have a transfer to another teacher but there are other children are you active in the p t a mrs williams in any school activity i imagine our teachers are pretty busy too too busy to give individual attention this year you know school nearly doubled its enrollment and you know how birth rates all over the country are still going up i came here mr chadwick to talk about getting rid of a teacher who obviously doesn't know our job and i'm speaking not only for myself when i take an afternoon off from a job mrs williams go out to the you're right mrs williams ms roberts isn't doing a good job you admit it ms roberts would be the first to agree with you not that she isn't a good teacher she's one of our best but today she isn't being given a chance at cha to teach the way she's been trained the way she wants to teach the way she can teach oh come now mr morris we're all overworked you haven't been here recently have you want to take a walk through the corridors take a look at some of our classrooms before you you see a classroom being set up on the auditorium space the school library taken out of circulation you see a class operating in the nearby  child crowded out by the time you reach ms roberts room your confidence in your judgment is a bit shak nevertheless attend the next meeting of the school board there you are set among vacant chair of those who in the long run frame school policy responsible for our school the school board and the superintendent trying to meet the problems of overcrowding as they strive for solutions you begin to wonder whose fault is it that cathy is not getting the best in education this robert suddenly you feel a desire to help to try to work out these problems with your neighbors through your community organization also because essentially you are fair person you begin to feel a sense of guilt about miss rather guilt that grows especially the next day when you hear from another teacher that miss roberts intends to resign