When a schoolteacher says, “What do we do with things when we are done with them?” the kids are supposed to know what the teacher means: put them away. But where is away? Where they belong. Where do they belong? Where you got them from. Oops, where was that again? Teachers in Heath’s study were confused, and annoyed, when these kids left tasks undone to go play with each other, or when they took materials and did the wrong things with them. They appeared to be disobeying the teacher, but they were simply doing what they normally do, just like the middle class children that the teachers
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