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My career advisor at
school
never mentioned it as an option.
And now what she's looking at in New York are colleges, because she's determined to go to
school
in New York.
The 20th century, the last hundred years, is riddled with disastrous examples of times that one
school
or the other tried to explain the past or predict the future and just did an awful, awful job, so the economics profession has acquired some degree of modesty.
An author visited our school, Jack Gantos.
Writing is using your imagination on paper, and I do get so scared because I travel to so many schools now and that seems like such a foreign concept to kids, that writing would be using your imagination on paper, if they're allowed to even write now within the
school
hours.
So I loved writing so much that I'd come home from school, and I would take out pieces of paper, and I would staple them together, and I would fill those blank pages with words and pictures just because I loved using my imagination.
Now when I was in sixth grade, the public funding all but eliminated the arts budgets in the Worcester public
school
system.
So I get shipped off to private school, K through eight, public schools, but for some reason my grandfather was upset that somebody at the local high
school
had been stabbed and killed, so he didn't want me to go there.
He wanted me to go to a private school, and he gave me an option.
You know, the
school
newspaper needs a new cartoonist, and you should be the cartoonist.
I was introduced to Mrs. Casey, who ran the
school
newspaper, and I was for three and a half years the cartoonist for my
school
paper, handling such heavy issues as, seniors are mean, freshmen are nerds, the prom bill is so expensive.
But it was so cool because I could write these stories, I could come up with these ideas, and they'd be published in the
school
paper, and people who I didn't know could read them.
And after begging and pleading for Christmas, I got a second-hand video camera, and I instantly started making my own animations on my own, and all throughout high
school
I made my own animations.
So after this experience, my art teacher, Mr. Shilale, he brought in these picture books, and I thought, "Picture books for kids!" and I started writing books for young readers when I was a senior in high
school.
Unfortunately, after you've gone to school, and you have a résumé and you've done a few jobs, you can't say anything anymore, so if you say you want to be the President of the United States, but your résumé reads, "Underwear Model: 10 years," people give you a funny look.
This was last Wednesday afternoon at a
school
in Brooklyn, New York, at Cristo Rey High School, run by the Jesuits.
It's an old New York
school
building, nothing fancy.
And there are about 300 kids in this school, and the
school'
s been going now for four years, and they're about to graduate their first class.
He does look good, because kids need structure, and the trick I play in all of my
school
appearances is that when I get through with my little homily to the kids, I then invite them to ask questions, and when they raise their hands, I say, "Come up," and I make them come up and stand in front of me.
But the real answer begins with bringing a child to the
school
with structure in that child's heart and soul to begin with.
A child who has not been read to is in danger when that child gets to
school.
And that's what you have to do to prepare children for education and for
school.
I was a public
school
kid in New York City, and I didn't do well at all.
And I finally bounced through high school, got into the City College of New York with a 78.3 average, which I shouldn't have been allowed in with, and then I started out in engineering, and that only lasted six months.
If I had ever gone home and told those immigrant people that, "You know, I'm tired of
school
and I'm dropping out," they'd said, "We're dropping you out.
You've got to reach out and back and find kids like Mr. Cruz who can make it if you give them the structure, if you reach back and help, if you mentor, if you invest in boys and girls clubs, if you work with your
school
system, make sure it's the best
school
system, and not just your kid's school, but the
school
uptown in Harlem, not just downtown Montessori on the West Side.
One day you're living your ordinary life, you're planning to go to a party, you're taking your children to school, you're making a dentist appointment.
In particular, nobody wants an operation with tools like these through large incisions that cause a lot of pain, that cause a lot of time out of work or out of school, that leave a big scar.
I have to go to school, get a job, send my kids to lessons ... " You think, "I'm too busy.
Kids have to go to lessons, to school, do homework and of course they take piano or ballet lessons, but they aren't fun anymore.
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