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Curtis Robbins 7 Learning Up Front For as long as I remember I’ve always I sat up front of the class so I could watch Teacher otherwise I’d be sitting in the back somewhere reading lips between bobbing, swaying, nodding heads: some were tall some were fat some had perms wide or high some had bushy ducktails or ponytails some even had crewcuts that the rest didn’t matter As long as I sat up front so I could watch Teacher. Some teachers talked chalkpoking the blackboard Some teachers talked flipping fanning pages Some teachers talked zigzagging rows of aisles that bobbing, swaying, nodding heads didn’t matter As long as I sat up front so I could watch Teacher. Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 7 8 Curtis Robbins When my classmates spoke I never knew who as long as I sat up front so I could watch Teacher. Whether meticulously copious notes were written on the blackboard or on blue on white nauseating ammoniated ditto or on black on white ink-blotted, letter-smudged mimeograph or read from the book As long as I sat up front so I could watch Teacher. Never once could I tell how much I understood — a day never went without daydreams -it never really mattered as long as I sat up front so I could watch Teacher. Gallaudet Book 5/1/02, 9:55 AM 8 ...

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