post script

1) this is the school where i shall be student teaching:
The Barnard Early Childhood Center values what every member of our community brings to the educational process. Utilizing the Reggio Emilia approach to educating young children, knowledge is constructed as a result of dynamic interactions between the children, faculty, parents, administration and the physical and social environments. We strive to help children see the connections between learning and experiences and document these experiences in a bias-free community that is rich in diversity of people and thought.
2)don't you love this description:
"i like margaret. she tries hard. she's older, and attractive in a hair-spray-and-shoulder-pads-twice-divorced survivor kind of way. a real bulldozer. she's like one of those little rooms you find only in chicago or new york in superexpensive downtown apartments--small rooms painted intense, flaring colors like emerald or raw beef to hide the fact that they're so small." Douglas Coupland
this reminds me of why i once wanted to be an english teacher.