“Mister,” she asked. “Can I go to the bathroom?”
“Sure,” I said. “Sign out. I’ll write you a pass.”
The students were working on a radical expressions worksheet that day. The room was quiet (which means that this wasn’t third period — the bane of my schedule this year).
When she knocked at the door and came back in, she sat down and continued working along with the others. And then she turned and waved me over.
“Did I do this right?”
“I don’t know,” I said. “Let’s check the answer.”
We walked over and checked her answer against the answers that I always post on the wall. She got it right.
“Look at you,” I said. “You take a break. You come back in. And you get the problems right.”
She smiled.
“Maybe I should take a bathroom break more often!”