{"id":133,"date":"2007-06-26T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T06:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepeer.net\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-06-26T14:57:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T06:57:41","slug":"4-of-my-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/4-of-my-800\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL in China: 4 of my 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/_mg_6341.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"_mg_6341.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week was Parents&#8217; Day at my school, a monumental undertaking involving 800+ students, 16 foreign teachers, countless Chinese staff, and many parents. Above are 4 of my former Grade 1 &#8220;babies&#8221;. Toothless Rick (more on him in a future post) introduced himself as 10-year-old Luke. 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