Too Cool for School

Mark Horowitz, a teacher at Golda Meir School in Milwaukee, and a large group of hosting families and staff, students, and seemingly the whole community of Dyssegaardsskolen, Denmark, have again collaborated on the exchange of fourth graders from Milwaukee to Denmark (for the 15th time).

Pool the resources of these wonderful schools and this enriching experience is the result.

By the way, in the top and bottom pictures, that's my niece Isabel in red with a polka-dotted headband, smiling as she and fellow students arrived at the airport in Copenhagen yesterday.

I do wish the challenges of international geo-politics could be met with the kindness, peace, and goodwill displayed by all these parties in this wonderful human phenomenon, especially that displayed by the Danish people who seem, to be candid, somewhat more civilized than we Americans.

Through experiential sharing with fellow Scandinavian human beings, these fourth-grade children are having the time of their lives, and their sense of excitement is inspiring.

As the student Kayla wrote on the last leg of their flight heading for Copenhagen, "... the plane we’re on right now from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. I think it’s about an hour. I am so, so, so excited! I know for sure the whole class is too."