Friday, March 7, 2008

Scars to Stars: the 50 year odyssey of the Star Poster Program

It was 1991, the inaugural year of the Bryan Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (BAVPA), an elementary grades Magnet School in Bryan, Texas, and as I walked down the hall one day behind the principal and a father of one of my third graders, I heard the dad say, "I told my son, if one of the other kids bothers you, 'Hit him with a pipe!'" That same year I also had a fifth grade student whose brother was stabbed to death on the ninth grade campus. Both of these incidences were disturbing.

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