What do you find?
Before you start reading this entry, please know both sets of parents have given me permission to share these stories. He's a kindergartener. She's in 3rd grade. In their own ways, both students are extraordinary. They are also very typical of what I see each day in my school. First our girl: What would you do if you had over the elbow casts on both of your arms? We had a 3rd grader accidentally fall off a playground structure this fall and return to school with just that-- two casts. She couldn't do anything for herself--or so we thought. Think about having casts which kept your elbows bent at about a 90 degree angle on each arm. Would you be able to dress yourself? How would you feed yourself? What would you do in the restroom? Let me give you just one example how this girl inspired me. She struggled to feed herself since she could not reach her mouth with her hands. With her parents' help, we arranged to have a couple of friends e