Seen from the 'Rock

Monday, June 11, 2012

Last Day

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--> It's Parker's last full day at Shamrock, and I'm in the garden again. So much to do: bulbs to move, mulc...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Testing our souls

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My son stands on the corner, holding a bright yellow sign in front of passing vehicles "Standardized testing made off with ...
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

Ken

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A green and leafy jungle of tomato plants overflows the bed of the white pickup parked on Ashland, Alabama's courthouse square...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Spring

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The pair of white cabbage butterflies wheels in circles, spiraling up toward the cloud-streaked sky, descending to the green...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Breaking New Ground

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On this warm winter evening, Shamrock Gardens glows with life. Inside the bright-lit cafeteria, tables crowd with families...
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Pamela Grundy
This blog shares some of my experiences and observations as a parent at Shamrock Gardens Elementary School, in Charlotte, N.C., from 2006-2012. Shamrock was a wonderful school, and our family – myself, husband Peter and son Parker – loved it dearly. It was also one of the many high-poverty, high-minority schools created as Charlotte dismantled its once-celebrated program of busing for desegregation. Seen from "The 'Rock" – as we called our school – the challenges and possibilities of high-poverty schools looked quite different from the rhetoric that at the time filled national educational debates. This blog offers comments based on experience, rather than the studies, statistics and expensive consultant reports that still too often drive educational decisions. I hope it offers you some food for thought. If you're interested in what's happened at Shamrock since 2012, please visit us at shamrockgardens.org.
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