Be well!

But that’s true here, too. The problems that kids are bringing to school are more serious than they were a couple of decades ago.

That’s it.
That’s what this script is like.
It’s like saying jump if i say jump, put your arm this way, look at me, and it offers so little. It doesn’t care.
I’ve heard people say of kids that are in serious jeopardy-references to their tests. First thought.

One coach told me yesterday that “literature and care” hadn’t worked.
She was talking about my kids in south Oxnard that have never seen books, some from broken difficult homes, talking of years of my work that did “work.” Because she is justifying Distar whole school. I have a reader beyond 6th grade level. She needs no “Corrective Reading.” But thats tough.
I look at what I see developing as resistant behaviors.
I just long for the arts.

Next year as it all collapses here, and especially so in my District I wonder….

I don’t know where in California Sarah Puglisi is from(I’m in northern California, in the south Sacramento area), but she has nailed it with her reference to the plight of foster children. But the pain has spread to so many groups. What do you say to the 4th grader (not even in a Title 1 school), for instance, who shares with you that her family just moved out there home into an apartment – which will not allow her to keep her dog?

The Highlander Center uses singing as a way of bringing people together. They even hold singing and song-sharing workshops, which tells us how important they believe music is.