"The teachers have been really great," she says.
Travaglia says her first-grade son Ralph was nervous about coming to school that morning--until he talked with his teacher.
"He didn't want to come, but now he wants to stay," she says.
It's Only Getting Better
She says she is getting her fourth-graders ready for the middle school routine, making sure they have two sharpened pencils and three books on their desks for quiet reading time in the afternoon.
It's Monday morning. And as the students work on math exercises, Feeley-Brooks checks up on the class. Jerome has a black eye he says he got from roughhousing with his cousin. George is sitting too close to Curtis and getting distracted.
Feeley-Brooks welcomes a girl who comes in a few minutes late and has her sign in.
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