On Aug 29, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doug had a nice interview with the principal (Anna Allanbrook?)
Yup, that's how it's spelled.
> of Brooklyn New School (PS 146), where his son will go for second grade. The school has a website to visit and I went to the gallery section to see the place. Best of show for me went to the 2an Grade project, Bridges. The kids built bridges out of guess what? High tech cutting edge glue and ice cream sticks, .... (My grandson is going into 2an grade in Berkeley, in some other permutation on the `progressive' school model).
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> Looking at the bridges was interesting to think about the variations. Some looked like blocky versions of the Brooklyn Bridge or Manhatten bridge, others used other models.
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> Somehow, that's the kind of thing I wanted to see going on in my kid's school back in the late 70s early 80s. And I did. So that enjoyment gets reproduced. It's really a cool thing to see in the flesh.
It's a great school. Most other kids are doing test prep already. They're not. They're fighting the good fight.
Doug