The Rev. Shaw, also the school principal, had sent word to Jeanette Carter, CNC advisory chair who actually surpervised the construction of the school, inviting her back. We found him late on a Friday morning, standing in the schoolyard, switch in hand, overseeing a sort of formless recess that precedes lunch time. He and a couple of the male upper-grade teachers were very quick to figure out who we were and organize themselves for a tour of the school. This was done in a churning sea of children. The most obvious thing is the lack of furniture.
Children carry their own chairs to school.
There were rag-tag collections of chairs in some classrooms. A couple of classrooms had schooldesks of the type we have been asked to provide for the school. But disturbing for a newly redone school is the appearance of bamboo room dividers to separate two classes within one room. They are rough-hewn bamboo poles, halved and spread out so that they don't block much noise. One teacher noted that the dividers have cut the children with their sharp sides.