For me, a school librarian, back to school means only one thing: handing out 3,500 textbooks and begging students to treat them kindly.
The memories of pulling countless all-nighters to work on essays, sitting four and a half hours in multiple testing centers, and begging students to participate in club meetings seem to hit me all at once.
The next day, Mrs. Escobar started each class period with an impassioned speech condemning violence and begging her students to be more tolerant.
Even if I thought my lessons were cool, interesting, engaging, I often spent the majority of my time cajoling, threatening, teasing, and begging my students to go at least part of the way with me.
It is the teacher who must be endlessly patient and tolerant of their behavior, and prove his or her own worth to parents and school boards by coaxing, cajoling and begging the students to study and do well on the tests.
As she walks through the halls, students beg to be in the next newscast.
Not especially knowledgeable, he shamelessly begs one student to "try not to know as much as me".
According to his supporters, Yusuf was one of thousands of Almajiri children – religious students who beg on the streets for a living.
Yesterday we were talking at a family gathering and one of our funny family members (he happens to be my "ex" and yes, he's really funny) suggested the word "veg" would be a more appropriate description of SLM's interest on loans - as well as the penalties and fees they add on to students who beg forbearance or hardship.
Close our school, they begged, because our students are so violent that teaching has become all but impossible.
When class ended on a Friday, several students begged Ms. Bervin to let them return over the weekend for one last crack at the machines.
