I did what I could do.  At first I told the young man, "You're going to be OK, help is on the way."   Although he did not appear to be conscious, I didn't want him to feel alone.  His deep convulsive breaths gave some hope.  He was hanging on.   His body was strewn sideways across the backseat, right leg at a right angle to his torso, pinned to mush under the steering column.  His left thigh bone protruded from the wrangled flesh, thigh muscle inside out.  His left foot dangled from sinew.  Dust and debris covered him and hid the red of the blood.  It looked like a war scene after the bombs stop.  The frazzled young lady who was on the cell phone pacing down the off ramp was near.  She is what made me stop and why I also knew that help was on the way.  ... Read more.

PS8 Robert Fulton School:  please help PS8's Middle School Expansion Application with the Dept. of Ed. by showing strength in numbers with community support.  Sign our Petition HERE. 

PS 8, currently preK - 5 in Brooklyn District 13, is a creative learning community that is dedicated to having all of its members flourish. Our mission is academic excellence and, in its pursuit, we are committed to the development of the whole child.

We wish for our children to continue to experience this model into Middle School through the 8th grade within their community.

Here is an example of our whole child approach, a routine writing assignment of one our 5th graders:

Japan

“Dinner's ready!” Shouted my mother. Her voice reminded me of a crane, hoarse but cheerful.  Read more ...

My heart goes out to the people of Japan for their great loss and their heroes who will meet their untimely doom trying to curtail the nuclear meltdown.  Each blast at Fukushima represents a dirty bomb on the Japanese and all others downwind or stream.  But as the earthquake's destruction exposed the reactor cores so has this international crisis further exposed the rotting core of the campaign finance system of our elected officials here in America, local to federal, should you want to see it.  This is President Obama's dirty little secret.  Read more ...