A final reminder that tomorrow is THE Monona Pie Party at the community center. This year the event is a benefit for early literacy materials at the Monona public library.
On the subject of libraries, I found this NPR story of a librarian, social intelligence and knowing when to break the rules really moving. God bless the librarians.
While this story occured a long time ago and far away I have to say that the social pressures that would make some students not want to be seen reading are not at all foreign to the here and now. Indeed this may be the single greatest challenge facing education in america.
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About Me
- Peter Sobol
- My family moved to Monona in 2003 and have been happily ensconsed in the Frost Woods Neighborhood ever since. I have 2 kids who graduated from Mg. I have been serving on the school board since April of 2007. We moved back to the Midwest in 2002 after spending 10 years in California, where I was a Department Director for Maxtor, a Fortune 500 company. In truth we left California largely because of the school situation - chronically underfunded schools did not offer the kind of programs or opportunities we wanted for our children. We picked Monona because our thorough research showed that this was a place we would really like to educate our kids. Our experience has taught us to value the quality schools we have here in Monona, and the importance of careful stewardship to maintain community support for those schools.
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