In Closing … On Schooling and Fabricated Cats

Sending her daughter to kindergarten motivates this educator to pen a short essay on the value of schooling and the tensions that are created between the group and the individual.  Musing on the writings of some of the great and often controversial curriculum theorists, Dredger questions even her own beliefs.  She concludes with the hope that her daughter, just one representative of all school children, will manage to thrive in a world of conflicting expectations and awesome possibilities.