My Personal Well-Remembered Event

My personal well-remembered event started back when I was in the 3rd grade. I was about 9 years old, in a classroom with about 20-25 students. My teacher was Mrs. Lopez and she was not particularly my favorite teacher. Therefore, I did no feel comfortable talking to her when there was an issue and I certainly didn’t want her to confront me about a problem, because she intimidated me tremendously! It all started on an typical morning, after we had put away our backpacks, lunches, turned in our homework, and were quietly waiting in our desk for further instruction. I remember sitting next to my best friend, Lauren Bon. She was always there for me and we both had each other backs in situations that would occur. But not on this particular day! As we were all settling in, I heard the teacher give her cue to listen up and pay attention. The boy across from us was still talking but fairly quietly. I hoped I was the only one who heard this mean comment but they were giggling and he said “Ellen is so dumb!” I was mortified, but tried my very best to cover up my embarrassment and move on. I was very uncomfortable
On this particular day, one child left school in tears. Crying to the point of barely being able to breath. He was so hurt by his peers that he told Mrs. Tucker he “didn’t want to come to school ever again!” This event happened in a 1st and 2nd grade ELL classroom after the students were finished their lunches, and time on the playground. There were about 15 students running around crazy trying to get settled in when this boy, “William” ran into another boy, “Sebastian.” Sebastian made an incredibly hurtful comment to the rather larger set little boy. He said to William he was “the fattest person in the class.” He followed that rude remark with the expression, “EW!” Mrs. Tucker was dumbfounded by the comment and pulled the two students for a