They are now seated around tables, interacting with each other, pestering each other, chatting, interrupting. Each child is doing something different. One may be writing, another reading, another drawing. Several children may be working on a project. Then there are fish tanks, gerbils, and rabbits to grab one's attention.
Mobiles hang from the ceiling, swaying in the breeze.
Anything and everything that could possibly distract a child is there. The teacher, of course, is no longer the focus of attention. She is now a facilitator who wanders around the room, helping one child here, chatting with another there. She's very much interested in your feelings, your sexuality, your family, your thoughts about death, suicide, abortion, feminism, homophobia, the environment, global warming, and world citizenship. She is also practicing psychiatry without a license.