I change all proper names to protect the innocent. And the guilty. And the ones who should be studying. And I also have a Favorite Backwoods Junior High and a Favorite Crowded Junior High - though not, really, a Favorite Crowded Elementary. I'm not sure it's possible to love 27 eleven-year-olds in the same room when four of them are trying their best to leave permanent marks on each other and the rest. Though I certainly sympathize with their little plights in life, from a certain distance.

|D b You're welcome, by the way. The first thing I got from students at this school was an origami collage with a piano, a crane, and paper-doll cutouts of teddy-bear heads.