Our first travel trailer. I don't remember camping much with my family as a kid. This is likely because we always had the same vacation destination: a family plot in Baldwin, MI. There was no cabin there. Instead, there were two structures: a small, silver camper and an old single-wide trailer. The silver camper is gone but the single-wide still sits there and is used by extended family members to this day. It wasn't until I was a teenager that my step-mom and dad bought a pop-up trailer and we started camping elsewhere in the state. My memory isn't the greatest, but I'm almost certain they got the pop-up after I started dating Ken. Eventually, my parents upgraded to a fifth wheel that my dad still pulls around to various nearby camping spots. Ken, by contrast, didn't have a set vacation destination growing up. His family camped. They started out with a truck-bed camper, I believe, and eventually upgraded to a fifth wheel. Ken and I vacationed both in Baldwin an
There are so many things in that video that I have been thinking all along. I wish other teachers would see this and believe in it as well.
ReplyDeleteI must admit I got teary-eyed a couple of times. Creativity is SO important to me, and the idea of allowing a school to obliterate any child’s creative potential gets me in the gut. Given my own creative nature (writing, scrapbooking, photography), this is understandable. The other factor, of course, is my kid. He’s got an imagination, but the school (aka the State &/or National Govt) isn’t interested in fostering that potential. They’re more concerned, in general, with MEAP scores and report cards.
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