She says she has never seen Fletcher's library but says it's "about time" the school got a permanent home.
Berg, who came to Cambridgeport in 1994 as the new fifth-grade teacher, says the library is not the only way overcrowding interferes with class.
"If a kid wants to sharpen a pencil often the whole row has to get up," she says. "The rows are so close together, when they back up they smash fingers."
"A Branch of Roses"
According to first- and second-grade teacher Nili Pearlmutter, that philosophy means recognizing that different children learn at different rates.
She says the approach is like "a branch of roses"--one bud may grow quickly, and another slower.
"If you pull it apart it will break," she says.
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