Sitting at my desk I notice a slowly moving figure in my doorway. The nine-year old student is not coming in, she's just walking past my open door at glacial pace. I start to ask her about what she's doing, but then think better of it. Eventually, she passes completely by my doorway without glancing up for a moment. She goes out of sight.
A moment later, as I'm back to typing away, another figure appears. Again walking slowly from right to left past my door. Patiently, she moves out of the frame to the left.
Why so slowly? They were both reading while walking.
It's a good thing I bit my tongue! I would have selfishly interrupted their deep concentration and engagement. At schools, this is what we're laboring for all day; what a gaffe it would have been to awkwardly interject and destroy their focus.
Whew. That was a close one.
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