We meet on Saturdays in a borrowed church hall. Forty children, ages seven to twelve, most of them a year or two behind where they should be in reading. We have volunteers and we have the hall. What we do not have is books at the right...

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mercy_nabwire

11 days ago · Contributor

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Is it worth doing a masters if I want to stay teaching?

It costs two years of savings. I am not sure it changes anything about my classroom.

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The reading club got books. Thank you to whoever reads this.

Someone here sent me a grant link in March. We applied, we got 1,200 dollars, and we bought 180 levelled readers from a publisher in Nairobi rather than shipping them from abroad. Attendance is up from forty to fifty-three.

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