Bret Turner (@bretjturner), who teaches first and second graders at an Oakland private school, saw this tweet go viral.
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The first guess from one of my 1st graders was “death” and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the moment.
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