When I was in grade school, there was not much freedom for individual children to
wander the halls. If a student was seen walking alone down the hallway during school
hours, a teacher or administrator was bound to stop the student and ask, "Where are you
supposed to be?"
The underlying presumption, of course, was that there was seldom a good reason for a
young child to be on his/her own, away from the teacher, and apart from the class. To be
in the hall alone, therefore, was to be where you didn't belong. You belonged somewhere
