What is the educational benefit of such continuing correspondence with school kids?
Oh, my! You mean: What might happen if real people started paying attention to elementary school children in large numbers and sharing their expertise and actually being present with them, looking into their eyes, and hearing them? What if we extended our belief in the most basic statement of what America is—All persons are created equal—to include everyone at all times and everywhere, so that children especially were always included? Hey, were talking revolution here. Or maybe were already in that revolution and dont know it. What do you think that might do in the inner cities? I know I get on a soapbox here, but to me that single declarative sentence is what America means. We got the statement (but not the fulfillment) right in the Declaration of Independence and at Seneca Falls in 1848 and at Gettysburg and in the 1960s with the Civil Rights Bill and with the beautiful man who said, I have a dream. And finally we laid claim to the whole damn thing on 11-04-08 when America grew up an
