Oh, Oh, See Me Read!
For a number of years after I retired from Alpine School District in 2000, I read with children at Cherry Hill School. I enjoyed it, and it gave me an opportunity to see young children that could not read well in second to fourth grades that needed help learning to read. Some of them were anxious to learn, and some were intimidated and maybe a little embarrassed to be pulled out of class to go to the trailer to learn to read. I had a lot of trouble reading up until I was in high school. That may have been one of the reasons that I wanted to do it. I knew of the problems that those that can’t read face. I worked in that program for two years. They stopped the program for some reason, possibly lack of funds to pay for it. All of the people who sat with the children to help the students were volunteers, but the director had a paid position. I’m not sure how much I helped anyone else, but tutoring helped me. During that time, I worked with four students each year. The next year one...