My son quit school last week.  More

I will take a break from recounting school woes now and talk about something I enjoy almost more than anything else in life: dance. In fact, as you may have noticed dance is the theme of many of the updates this week. I might as well also fess up that I am very partial to dance – as both art and education – and I have every intention of promoting dance and boys in dance on this site. More

My son’s fourth grade teacher, Sara, is a young and energetic woman who takes her work seriously. One of the first assignments she gave her students was an “I Am” composition. This was a sheet with partial sentences for the children to complete with their own thoughts and feelings. Here is my son’s, his comments in italics: More