Marc Shapiro Mrs. Morgan's book and her new student did not agree when it came to mathematics. "She gave me an arithmetic test on the very first morning, and, after a huge effort, I managed to get zero right out of ten she said on an Okubooks chat. "The test was on fractions and I had never done fractions before." On her first day, Mrs. Morgan sat Joanne in a row of desks to the far right of the classroom. The young child was fine with that until a few days later when she figured out, by talking to her fellow stu dents, that the teacher had put her in the stupid row. It seemed that Mrs. Morgan had made up her seating chart based on how clever she thought her students were. The brightest students sat on the left side of the room and the rest sat on the right. Joanne painfully recalled her first days at Tutshill Primary, when, she wrote, "I was as far right as I could get without sitting on the playground." It was a tough first year for Joanne. She was not making friends as easily as she had in the past. Physically and emotionally she was changing. It all added up to a rough beginning in her new school I wasn't as clever as I thought I should be he confessed when looking back on those days for