Kudos to NYC for really teaching.  My grandson just “graduated” from kindergarten.  This is a ceramic piece he made after learning about Wayne Thiebaud, his favorite artist.  Of course that was a month ago.  Now his favorite artist is Jim Dine.  I can talk to him about Picasso and Leger and O’Keefe and the list goes on.

For graduation, he told me, his class was going to sing “It’s a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong.  Yes, he knew who wrote the song and he knew some history about Armstrong.

His music teacher encouraged him to learn piano and so he is.  And he practices 10 minutes everyday.

THANK YOU NYC for doing your job in educating my grandson.  THERE ARE NO TEACHERS LIKE NYC PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS once the city makes up its mind to do the job!

From one teacher to all of you, THANK YOU!!!!!