At first, I thought he was simply disrupting the lesson and didn’t want to listen to me, but when I understood the real reason, I was truly shocked.
I remember that lesson as if it were yesterday. Everything was going as usual: formulas on the board, children writing, the scratching of pencils. But one boy stood out from the rest.
He would sit at his desk, then get up after a few minutes. I made a remark — he sat down again. Five minutes later — up again. At first, I thought he was just playing around, trying to get attention, or testing how far he could go. Classmates were already giggling, clearly thinking he was deliberately disturbing the lesson.
I tried to stay calm, but a strange sense of anxiety grew inside me. Why was he doing this over and over? In his eyes, there was none of the usual mischief.
When the bell rang, I stopped him at the door:
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