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Share the Lead: Why We Need

to Let Go of Our Kids’ Learning

By Erik Roth, Principal, Cresskill Public Schools

Wheels of worry turned soil all over. Plants in containers easily that hole underneath." She offered a
inside the girl’s head. drown. Don’t overdo it." Geraniums generous pour to the hanging bas-
ket of petunias and paced the entire
popped like fireworks from a wooden
Her parents departed the morning barrel by the stairway. "Their leaves length of the yard, while waiting for
before for a few days out on the coast. don’t like to get too wet. Soak ‘em the water to emerge.
Struggling with the weight of a two- around the base, between the stems. Time ran out. Her grandmother’s
gallon can, she hazily recalled what her Wanna jot down some notes, so you call from the kitchen tangled with his
father shared about proper care for his don’t forget?" voice inside her head. "Watering is
flowers. "Watering is a morning task." Lost in a blur of remembered particu- a morning task." With the valve for
She had to hurry. Her grandmother had lars, she tingled with the same feeling the hose still open, she ran inside the
breakfast ready. Theater camp would she endured during math tests. "Make house. The impatiens would wait until
start in 30 minutes. "Now, don’t hold the sure you reach the roots. Don’t leave late afternoon. A slow trickle dripped
can too high. A heavy shower’ll splatter
until you see a stream leaking from all day on the driveway.

Educational Viewpoints -4- Spring 2018