Innovative Teaching: Tutoring and Enrichment

I came across this poem by Rudyard Kipling. It seems as timely today as it did in 1920. We and They By Rudyard Kipling... Father and Mother, and Me, Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea, While We live over the way, But-would you believe it? --They look upon We As only a sort of They! We eat pork and beef With cow-horn-handled knives. They who gobble Their rice off a leaf, Are horrified out of Their lives; While they who live up a tree, And feast on grubs and clay, (Isn't it scandalous? ) look upon We As a simply disgusting They! We shoot birds with a gun. They stick lions with spears. Their full-dress is un-. We dress up to Our ears. They like Their friends for tea. We like Our friends to stay; And, after all that, They look upon We As an utterly ignorant They! We eat kitcheny food. We have doors that latch. They drink milk or blood, Under an open thatch. We have Doctors to fee. They have Wizards to pay. And (impudent heathen!) They look upon We As a quite impossible They! All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

We have some changes for this year’s school year! For one, we’ve closed our center. Most of our business for the last couple years has been migrating into schools. This has allowed us to be more responsive to our student’s academic needs and to their schedules. Also, we are being more active in promoting educational issues this year. During the Democratic primary race, Bernie Sanders brought the concept of free college for all to the forefront of the national conversation. As admirable as the idea is, we believe free preschool for all would have a vastly more important effect on a student’s academic and life success. Where preschoolers are younger than we cater too, we believe so much in its importance that we are making promoting it a focus of our efforts.