In May of 1996, in the hill town of Kitchanga in the North Kivu province of eastern Congo (then still called Zaire), I spent a night in a dank schoolroom that had been temporarily set up as an operating room by surgeons from the Dutch section of Médecins Sans Frontières.
She spends 35 hours a week in a one-girl schoolroom that her parents have created for her in an unused portion of a local religious school, working with a former preschool teacher with expertise in special education.
In Ripon, a small town about an hour or so north of the state capital, there is a small 19th-century schoolroom that underlines just how far the Republican party will have come if Trump does pull off a surprise win here on Tuesday.
This is what happens with children who use computers in schoolroom environments that Seymour has set up, and in this the computers are essential, since their behavior is so flexible".
So have MTV and even Channel One News, the division of the for-profit schoolroom network that broadcasts news programs and advertisements in 12,000 schools to 8 million adolescents.
But this wasn't the only schoolroom antic that took place in the interview.
Appalled that 4m children did not even have desks, let alone schoolrooms, he invented a "lapdesk" that sits on the child's lap and provides a stable surface.
In the popular imagination, it's somewhere above the kazoo but below the harmonica– an instrument that brings back schoolroom memories of painful, atonal versions of Frère Jacques, with spit dripping on to floors.
In the third, Treeson murmurs a story in Conor's ear about an invisible man, and the result is an act of schoolroom violence remarkably similar to one that occurs (to far greater effect) in Barry Jenkins's film "Moonlight".
The reasons for this are varied; distance between home and the schoolroom, inadequate facilities in those schools that do exist, and a perception that education has no value for some families.
