A ceremony at one of our schools

[Karen Canty <kscanty@PACBELL.NET>]

To the list,

There have been many many times over the past 11 years when I have been
proud of being a part of our public school system in Menlo Park but today
was probably the best...

I just got off the phone with a parent from our 3rd-5th grade school who had
come from a ceremony this morning at the school.  All the children were
outside for the raising of the flag and they sang "God Bless America" which
is probably not an unusual occurrence today; however, what was different was
that the principal had invited the police and firemen from our community to
share in the ceremony so that the students could say thank you to all of
them for what they do everyday.  The parent I talked to could barely speak
but she said that one of the fireman, with tears in his eyes, told her that
he knew that lots of schools had done something to commemorate the day but
it was the first to which they had been invited.

In all of the pain and anger, I somehow feel better.....

Karen