The weeks are passing quickly in Merhavim, and soon I will begin my third month. While it is true that time flies here, sometimes at school it seems as if it has stopped altogether. This was one of the reasons I initially hesitated to teach. Although I love teaching and being around children, I dislike waiting and wasting time, and in school everything moves slowly, especially at the junior high level. Lessons are often canceled without warning, and even when they do take place, they rarely start on time. For example, it takes my seventh graders twenty minutes to walk from one building to another, so instead of beginning a lesson at, say, 10:30, I rarely start before 10:50. I assume they arrive late to........

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