My First Day In School Comments

To play truant was my intention, Out of the class, towards home I ran. Lovely and funny. Thanks poet for the sharing. 10 for it.

A real life experience, so well expressed. Thanks Kishore for the sharing. 10++++

The first day of school can be a frightening experience, especially for a child with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) . Here is an excerpt from the book Birdseed Cookies by Janis Jaquith, who says she suffers from the disorder, or at least did when she was a child. This just breaks my heart. I tried to read it aloud to my wife and couldn't do it without breaking down. I'm sitting at a desk in first grade. The teacher's standing up in front of us, and she's talking about something or other … I look down at my desk. There are all these little squares of green paper. I don't know where they came from. Each square has a number on it. What am I supposed to do with those? I look around at the other kids and a hot stab of panic shoots through my chest. All the other kids are doing something special with those numbers. They all know what to do. Now the teacher is moving up and down the aisles, licking little gold stars and pressing them to the foreheads of the kids who know what they're doing. She goes right past me. I don't belong here. I don't know how I got here. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I'd go home... but I don't know how to do that either.

Such a very good poem, Kishor... a full 10++++