9 - Taylor L. - The Class With a Bottle of Students’ Tears

The Classroom With a Bottle of Students’ Tears

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The details surrounding classrooms are all very coherent from class to class. It is guaranteed that there will be some sort of configuration of desks, a white board at the front of the room, and a teacher’s desk somewhere in the corner. It is easy as a student to think of these details because they are so common amongst the classes we go to daily. 

I remember one classroom a little bit more distinctly, however. Walking into that class, us students were met with a warm and different atmosphere than the average class. There were huge posters of different historical figures, several projects from previous students proudly displayed on the walls, and weird contraptions all around the room. Desks were arrayed not in groups but colonial towns and everything coordinated with a classroom game revolving around colonial America. 

There were specific desks for specific things. One desk in the corner of the class was dubbed the quarantine desk, specifically dedicated if anyone were to sneeze or cough. Another desk was for more talkative students, seated at the front of the classroom.  A water bottle filled halfway lay stagnant on top of another desk, sarcastically labeled as, “students’ tears”. It provided a humorous aspect or light into our stressful day as a student.

Each of the corners was filled with miscellaneous clutter ranging from sticks to piles overflowing with papers and books. 

There was no order. No cleanliness. No structure. Perhaps that’s what made the class so unique and memorable as opposed to the other ordinary classrooms. Or maybe it was the teacher that made that class so different yet special through his eccentric teaching methods and equally odd classroom. 

Regardless, one wouldn’t possibly be able to forget the feeling of walking into that classroom.