Last week, I visited one of the UNRWA schools in Beit Hanoun: washing hung from every window, classrooms heaved with families, displaced mothers filled the playgrounds with their worry and sadness, girls queued patiently in front of the water tank.
At a more dilapidated school several blocks away, a barefoot Ali Abdul-Zara, 17, pointed out that it needed windows, classroom doors and a wall around the compound.
On the first day of primary school in the upper-class neighborhood of Mezzeh, the sound seeped into a closed-window classroom where I was photographing young students.
Every now and then, Miss Lewis saw faces at the windows of classrooms, as other children looked out to see them playing Buttony.
Due to the dilapidated nature of the school building -- broken furniture, cracked windows, freezing classrooms, broken and dirty restrooms, a lack of lunch or gym facilities -- Schultz abandoned his lesson plan in favor of his student's suggestion to focus on the state of their facilities.
Teachers have started painting floors, walls and windows of classrooms so that they will look like new when children arrive in September.
Windows in classrooms should be tested regularly for proper function and condition.
I didn't wear a watch, but it seemed to come always, hissing outside our classroom window in the summer, flashing past when the windows were closed.
Besides, the classroom window is grimy.
Your Task: Look out the window of your classroom.
His classroom window is next to the monkey bars there.
