But there the little girl was, fingering her old, torn jacket, staring painfully at the other child in the beautiful, blue velvet coat.
Students use the shelter to escape the hot building on warm days.
Principal Debbie Biggs, who had sweated through months of fund-raisers so that her southeastern Ohio elementary school could attend The Nutcracker at the Ohio Theatre, scrambled for words and perspective. I said, 'Honey, it doesn't matter. Disparity, Biggs knows, is not a kid-friendly concept. The first time they recognize it, it's sad and it hurts,'' she said. But it's real, and so they need to know about it.