A visitor, watching K-5 youngsters, finds that cutting off summer school's loser label is decent and smart. They swing on branches. They are red, gray, black, brown and orange. The class is divided into two groups. They'll combine the body parts as they try to develop monkey stories.
Some children are more adept than others and work faster.
One teacher monitors 12 to 15 students. Add volunteers, classroom assistants and library aide Rose Hedenskog, though, and one adult is often there for each four to six youngsters. Shrinking violets blossom under the sunshine of personal attention. The same happens with many who misbehave in larger classes. Kindergarteners and first-graders are learning to walk in time to music.