Earlier this month, Marie McGaugh was subbing in a kindergarten class at Souris Regional School on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The children gathered around her feet for morning circle time, settling in for songs and stories. One girl pointed to her friend beside her and said, not unkindly, "Your shirt is on backwards." Other children overheard this and soon the whole class had turned to look at the girl with the backward shirt. Several giggled. The girl with the backward shirt hung her head, red with embarrassment. Ms. McGaugh took this as an opportunity to talk with the kids about hurt feelings and choosing kindness. But as she began, she saw another child silently slip her own arms from her sleeves and turn her own shirt backwards. Then another, and another, until within minutes, almost the entire class wore their shirts backwards. They kept them that way for the rest of the day.
"It was just one of those golden moments where I didn't teach them, they taught me," McGaugh said. "I was blessed to witness it."
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