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People ask why I enjoy teaching at a Title I school...I like to respond with the following: I awoke early, as I often did, just before the sunrise, to walk by the ocean’s edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a child, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt, in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As I approached, I sadly realized that the child was not dancing to the day, but rather bending to sift through the debris left by the night’s tide, stooping now and then to pick up a starfish, and then standing, to heave it back into the sea. I asked the child the purpose of the ef