Community hands-on for Hawthorne school
Hawthorne fourth-graders eat lunch in a courtyard at the
front of the school Wednesday. Clockwise from back left is
Brandon Clear, Nick Kulwicki, Ricardo Rodriguez and Angel
Ventura.
When Hawthorne Elementary principal Ann Auten walks the halls and playground of her school, she notices every project — whether big or small — that has come from the hands of community members.
There’s the playground equipment painted by members of a nearby church, the curtains sewn by the delicate hands of a woman in her 90s, and even the tree planted to remember the death of a first-grader.
“It’s just the community coming together,” Auten said Wednesday. “That’s how education needs to look for the future. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a school. It takes the community.”
Hawthorne fourth-graders eat lunch in a courtyard at the
front of the school Wednesday. Clockwise from back left is
Brandon Clear, Nick Kulwicki, Ricardo Rodriguez and Angel
Ventura.
There’s the playground equipment painted by members of a nearby church, the curtains sewn by the delicate hands of a woman in her 90s, and even the tree planted to remember the death of a first-grader.
“It’s just the community coming together,” Auten said Wednesday. “That’s how education needs to look for the future. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a school. It takes the community.”
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