Isn't there a compromise?

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Isn't there a compromise?
By Suzanne

I have been in a classroom that was so disorganized I couldn't find many of the materials on the lesson plan. Few items were where her hand-scribbled notes said they would be. I had a very difficult time keeping to the time schedule even though I came in early. I hope I didn't misplace anything but I would have needed another hour to make a map of the piles. I left anything I touched in stacks with post its describing the contents.

The only time I threw anything away was in a classroom that had cockroaches the size of small mice. They would actually walk over to me. It was all I could do to keep the kids calm when the roaches would parade through the class. I threw away an open box of cookies and I would do it again.