Passing time in middle school = 4 minutes of chaos!
I have a love/hate relationship with the passing time in the hallways. On one hand, the noises they make and the commotion caused is tremendously overwhelming. But there is also a part of me that loves watching their interactions and ease dropping on 12 year-old drama.
After my last hour of the day, I head out to help the kids get to the bus. I looked down the hallway and saw one of the teachers standing with her shoulders shrugged, laughing at a student who was laying on the ground with his classmates pouring out on both sides of him. I was intrigued, so I walked against the current (I honestly felt like a salmon swimming up stream.)
The young man, who I will endearingly call "Flicker" (you can ask me how he got that nickname), was giggling himself. Children who have autism are incredibly factual. There is no grey matter, it is all black and white. This child has autism and I was interested to see what happened from his perspective. When I asked my coworker what happened he screamed:
"I ran into them... and then I bounced off of them.. and fell onto the floor!!!!"
This young man had ran directly into his teachers chest or and then projected it loudly down the hallway, with every sixth grader in the school walking past!!!
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