Praise Song for Near Misses

Praise Song for Near Misses

1992. The window behind the teacher’s desk sits at floor level, relic of a time when this wing of the building was an auditorium and this floor didn’t exist — in those days it was only open space, air flecked with motes of burning dust. Across the hall, my own classroom has exactly this setup: desk in the corner, crank-out window at floor-level behind. Photo: Wallace Chuck / Pexels This day the student desks in my colleague’s room are circled up…