Betty Brown – Mission as a school

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I think the important piece is that we're trying to, with this school, make a very inclusive society that we are trying to share life long lessons with children. We want them to take what they learned here, academically, socially, emotionally, and the piece that they've learned about diversity, about diverse populations, and the importance of that. We want to give them a foundation, so that as they grow older they still have those core values. I've actually seen that we have children that I've known since they were children and now are in their twenties, and unfortunately in their thirties, we've had some of those children come back now as parents with their children. And they will share with me things they remembered from when they were in the school. And it's a lot of those values that they took those life lessons with them. It doesn't happen with every child, but I've heard enough that it does happen. And even my own child, who's twenty-five, went through the center, and when I watch her interaction with people, I know her family also taught her certain lessons, but they were reinforced here, and she still carries those with her. When I watch her interact with people the respect she has for people, the way she has at looking of people for who they are and not the outward appearance, I know those values both at home and form here, and she carries them so strongly because the lessons came from both places. I see that with other children. We want to make sure that we're building a foundation so that they can actually go out and be embraceries’ to the world, and share that respect for people that we hope we're giving to the children. [01:48:00] We want to see that, years from now so that the world can be a better place. That's the important piece about the center and the work the teachers do, and as a staff we do to help the children be better prepared for being members of the world, because if it's not a tiny isolated little world anymore, or their own little world here. We are members of the world and you need to have respect for everyone who makes up this world. And we want them to not go through with lessons that they may have learned that aren't appropriate, lessons that society sometimes gives the wrong message, so we want them to have more of what we consider the right message, and may be some people wouldn't agree with us. But we want people to really see themselves as members of the world, and having that respect for people, not just people that look themselves, or act like themselves, but for all people. And really embrace that, and that's what we're hoping for as a school. That's what we're trying to do.

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