This chapter of Fires in the Bathroom used student responses and opinions to talk about how well students and teachers should get to know each other. It used many examples for ways that teachers could get to know their students, without overstepping any boundaries. Examples such as, questionnaires asking how students learn, knowing student's schedules, connecting work to student interests and knowing student's neighborhoods.
The part of this chapter that really jumped out at me, was how important it was to know where students live and that aspect of their lives outside of the classroom. I had never thought that knowing student neighborhoods would be important to their learning, but after reading this chapter, it really opened by eyes. I definitely think that when I'm a teacher, I'm going to make the effort to know where students live and understand how that might affect their learning and understand the resources that they have or don't have.
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