The fifth-graders at Denver's Thomas A. Edison elementary school sit in a circle with their principal, Forest Fransen. Placing an empty soda bottle on the floor, Fransen and the kids spin it to choose the order of children who will "tell about themselves." After a few embarrassed giggles, a boy named Paul says: "I like to go fishing a lot. There's six in my family and two are babies. That's all." Don reveals that "I've got a sister in junior high; I had another sister but she had cancer." The children are fidgetless and fascinated. Finally the bottle points to Fransen,...
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