My fifth grade travel school kids are slowly climbing the ladder to being my favorites. Ten minutes before 5-1 English class starts, two girls come early to chat with me. It started the other week and has continued since. The two are equal height but one is more extroverted with long hair; the other is quiet but witty with a hair cut so short it rivals her male classmates yet somehow fits her perfectly. I didn’t know we had established a pattern but kids are great like that. I wandered back to the English classroom only to find the two crowded by the desk waiting for me. I gave them…