Working things out...and looking to the future

This has been a tough week with some of the younger boys. They enjoy creating their own physical games like Pokemon Battle and practicing their sword adventures, but the result of them not setting up boundaries for these games has been some anger and hurt feelings when things go too far. They've been working on talking to each other more and at week's end it seems to be going well.

Wednesday, we took time to go to The Station Museum's current exhibit "Defending Democracy". Highly recommended for anyone interested in human rights and in the struggles of peoples in the Americas. The kids sat through the film on the 2004 people's protest in Oaxaca at least 5 times. They were asking questions about why the police had on full riot gear and the people just had flowers and signs. They also got a kick out of the Otebenga Jones section of the exhibit that was set up to look like a high school gym and they tried to sit through the part of the film but their attention was focused on wanting to play basketball. They took lots of pictures of BPP's Emory Douglas' work. I am looking forward to making some stencils to do a little graffiti style self expression with the kids at the Art Day Houston this Sunday.

Yesterday, The Real School visited the HAEA pool party and had a blast! Great people and a great pool from what was relayed to me. I look forward to more collaborations with our community and building some great programming.

Tomorrow is the last Open Dialog at the Dickson location. It has served as the school's location for the past 18 months and even though it has been a great house, it is time to start a new chapter in the school's history. For anyone looking for an alternative to public education, please stop by 5020 Dickson St, Houston Texas 77007 tomorrow at 3pm to talk. We look forward meeting new families and getting more people unplugged from the typical institutionalized systems. Call us if you have any questions as we are glad to talk about positive ways to educate children. We all could use some backup and resources for our families. Have a great weekend!