Education That Sparks Family Conversations

There's this poem where when read from top to bottom, it describes everything extremely pessimistic. The same lines, when read from bottom to top, it describes everything very optimistic, just the opposite. And it's a cute way of showing that the same set of words can give us two wildly different messages. I got a text from a father who said, "My son came home and excitedly showed me this poem that you gave out and did with them in class." And as a family, we sat around the table and looked at it, read it together, and we liked it. It was cute. It was interesting. There's a certain funny part to it, but it was just eye opening to us as a family and we talked about it as a family. That is a 100% success rate in terms of implementation of this curriculum. The right way to do it is to have the parents involved, included, informed for those that aren't and that are so absent. They're going to continue to be absent with whatever else is going to be going on. And thank God those children are still going to get something from the curriculum that we're providing to them. And I would argue they're going to get a lot from it. They potentially can then be the vehicle of change even in their own homes as they get older. [Music]