Or a high school student working out a chemistry equation, with the teacher sitting at the same table, uninterrupted by other students. Housed on the second floor of a former private school next to the show grounds, HITS classrooms are a school away from school. Students keep up with their work. Teachers send in assignments. Tests are administered and faxed back to their school.
Some work is done by e-mail.
Chris Mielenz, age 9, from Memphis, Tenn., is in the third grade. He doesn't ride horses but his parents do. I finished it. He asked for more and books on Black History Month were purchased for him. Lisa Danuff, retired Vanguard teacher, is the HITS elementary school teacher this year.