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Last Friday afternoon, I went to a reunion. Fourteen of my favorite people in the whole world came to the elementary school where we did fourth grade together. We gathered, a few weeks shy of their high school graduation, to open the time capsule they put together about this time eight years ago.<\/p>\n

The young men were so tall and deep-voiced, it took a few minutes for me to match them with the little boys who hugged me good-bye almost a decade ago. The young women were poised and lovely, the fulfullment of the promises I had glimpsed beyond their ponytails and\u00a0 the chipmunk teeth that overpowered their nine-year-old faces. Not everyone returned for the festivities. Some I couldn\u2019t locate. Some lived too far away to return for the party. Some chose not to come. Their absence was an emptiness in the crowded room.<\/p>\n

My former students looked different, but their chatter was the same, as they watched the videos of their fourth grade year. Squeals of laughter and little screams filled the room as they found photographs of our Halloween party, field trips and playground fun. They read the stories they had written, full of their perfect penmanship and childhood wishes. \u201cI don\u2019t remember much of fourth grade,\u201d several confessed. But by the end of the afternoon, they did – the broken clipboard, the multiplication songs, our class fundraiser, science experiments, social studies presentations, and one book they said impressed them: a true story written by children\u2019s author Peg Kehret about her childhood battle with polio.<\/p>\n

Eight years ago when these kids entered my classroom, they wormed their way into my heart. They\u2019ve been there ever since. As they came up one by one to open the little token they placed in the time capsule, I marveled at the young adults they\u2019ve become and rejoiced to hear of the dreams they have for the future.<\/p>\n

Nothing dimmed the magic of the afternoon. For an hour, the soon-to-graduate seniors were fourth graders again, and I was their teacher. And I prayed that the memories of childhood and the sweetness of our days together will be one small, link in the chain of events that holds them up and carries them into the future. In that future, I hope they will experience one of the greatest privileges I have ever known: to watch a youngster discover the potential he\u2019s been given and then use it to give to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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