JOURNAL BLOGS
Sometimes, there ain’t enough column space...
14
Mar 2008
Reaching out at the schools
Posted by Scott Spielman
at 12:11 PM | Comments
The phone rang at about 6:30 p.m. last night and the caller asked for my seven-year-old son, Henry.
It was his teacher, trying to see if he’d be ‘caught reading.’
His school, Hoover Elementary in Wayne, has this program throughout the month where students caught reading between the hours of 6-7 p.m. get a prize. I was mildly impressed by the program, and the fact that she would put in a call that was obviously after traditional work hours.
March is reading month, when most schools put extra emphasis on literacy. Hoover is no exception—the gym is already filling up with paper cutout baseballs representing all the books the children have read. Jennifer Currie, the principal there, has promised to kiss a horse if the school reaches the goal. (At first, it was a goat, but she smartly changed her mind on that).
My advice: pucker up. Henry and I are doing are part and it looked like most of the other kids were, too.
Another thing hit me today when I stopped by to snap a picture of State Rep. Marc Corriveau, who was the guest reader at Hoover today. Afterward he asked several questions of his young audience: what was the state bird, the state flower, any laws they’d like to see? Not everyone knew the answers, but when he asked who in the crowd knew how to use a computer, every hand went up.
Wow, I told myself, these youngsters are more technologically savvy than some of our Wayne City Council members…
Comments
« Back to Bloggin' on the Edge
Feeds