Teachers are required to eat with the children three times a week, using lunchtime to catch up with students and find out what's happening at home, how things are going with school or just whatever is on the children's minds. When they're finished with their meals, the students bus their own tables, return to their seats and wait for one of the teachers to let their table line up for recess. Today it's raining outside, so the students go upstairs to a gym, where they play dodge ball and practice doing pyramids for the newly formed drill team before returning to classes for the afternoon. Students and their families have been treated to operas, chamber music concerts and barbershop quartets. The kids have performed with opera divas and enjoyed classes with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company.
Classical music is piped into all of their classrooms.
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