Third row back
never back chat
yet nobody knows my name.
I am the classroom ghost
Faceless to most
Silent learner lurking in the shadows.
Alison Jean Hankinson
I am putting this in for the open link night. I wrote this last week and yes it is/was inspired by my day-job…. Foe d’Verse open link
The inspiration actually came from a very lovely student who gave the description “lurking in the shadows” when asked what skulking meant. I sent a postcard home.

How true… there are always the silent ones that prefer to stay in the background..
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Yeppers. I can relate. I was always in the background.
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I’ve known a few of them in my time!
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I feel there are deliberately ignored by the rest 😦
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Listeners absorb more wisdom.
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Ah, but still water runs deep, it’s said!
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I can so relate to this, definitely a background person!
Anna :o]
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Know this so well! You have captured it beautifully 🙂
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I was “invisible” in school. I found if we don’t make waves we float along just fine. (But still make a ripple now and again!)
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Nice description: “classroom ghost”.
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Break through that, Allison, you know you can.
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