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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Volleyball Game

On Monday, I watched Island Heights Grade School face off against Seaside Park Elementary School in a friendly volleyball tournament. We do this quite a bit, they hosted the basketball game last week, we hosted volleyball this week.

Seaside Park is also a small school, another one that is being lost to "the powers that be".

As I watched the fourth, fifth and sixth graders of these two schools, it struck me how similar they are. All from tiny towns, no designer sneakers or clothes, just kids being kids. Not a cell phone in sight, no one was texting. It was refreshing, then it was sad. I got a strong sense of impending extinction. Suddenly our small schools, who no one really cared about before, are under attack.

How will we ever explain this to our children?

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