A teacher posted notes from her third grade class online and started a social media campaign under the hashtag #IwishMyTeacerKnew. She says that the assignment was a revelation for her. The 26 years old US teacher Kyle Schwartz from Colorado asked the eight and nine year olds at her Denver inner city school to write down something they wished she knew about them. It was partly as a writing exercise and partly as a way for herself to learn about her students.



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Responses included “I don’t have pencils at home to do my homework,” and “I want to go to college.” One one shocking one from a girl who said that she had no friends to play with at recess.


When the teacher shared photographs of some of the notes on Twitter, similar messages and pictures came pouring in from other schools all around the world.


A Colorado teacher who posted notes from her third grade class online and started a social media whirlwind under the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew said the assignment had been a revelation for her.



Kyle Schwartz, 26, asked the 8- and 9-year-olds at her Denver inner city school to write down something they wished she knew about them, partly as a writing exercise, and partly as a way for her to learn about her pupils.


Responses included “I don’t have pencils at home to do my homework,” and “I want to go to college,” to one tear-jerker from a girl who said she had no friends to play with at recess.


When the teacher shared some of the notes on Twitter, similar messages and pictures came pouring in from other schools worldwide.


Schwartz, a self-described suburban girl who has taught at southwest Denver’s Doull Elementary for three years, said she had conducted the exercise each year, in part because she wanted to underline the issue of poverty in US inner citie


Kyle Schwartz asked her eight and nine-year-old students at Denver’s Doull Elementary school to write down something they wished she knew about them.


Schwartz said she carried out the writing exercise each year, in part because she wanted to underline the issue of poverty in US inner cities and also as a way for her to learn about her pupils.


The 26-year-old teacher shared some of the notes, which included “I don’t have pencils at home to do my homework”, on her Twitter account under the hashtag #IWishMyTeacherKnew.