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The reason one teacher has kept an empty chair in his classroom for 50 years
The empty chair is a reminder. A reminder to Gill and a reminder to the students. “Each year I teach lessons around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday about the Civil Rights movement,” Gill ...
Tallahassee Democrat7y
The empty chair speaks volumes, especially on Mother's Day
But in time, the empty chair made its appearance. Across from me at a restaurant, the space was all too apparent. The silence much too deafening. The call on my birthday which had become ritual ...
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This teacher keeps an empty chair in his N.J. classroom. Here’s why other schools are doing the same.
His classroom in the schoolhouse built in 1896 is so crammed with both students and the “stuff” of every Civics classes that the single, empty chair in ... headed to a birthday party.
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Why a teacher has kept an empty chair in his classroom for 52 years
He is writing a book called "No More Chairs." The name comes from an act of bias he saw at 9 years old when he and his Black friend, Archie, went to a birthday ... has kept an empty chair in ...
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The reason one teacher kept an empty chair in his classroom for 50 years
The empty chair is a reminder. A reminder to Gill and a reminder to the students. “Each year I teach lessons around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday about the Civil Rights movement ...