For nearly 2 decades Don Riesett has been an inspirational teacher and mentor to the students of The Community School. His weekly creative writing seminar and one-on-one sessions with the students are always a highlight of the week. Today was no exception, as the students reflected and wrote introducing themselves.
Mr. Don, as he is known to the students, encourages the students both to think and to express themselves n ways both deep and creative. As he introduced this first seminar of the year, Don spoke about how this class will sometimes make you laugh and other times cry because students have shared both deeply personal stories from their lives and hilarious stories from their imagination. We are so fortunate to have Don as part of the community of The Community School.
Here are a few unedited excerpts from the students' writings this week:
"I am Danny. I am 65% Oxygen, 18% carbon, 9% hydrogen, and 3% nitrogen. I’m a hominid primate, a bipedal great ape capable of critical thinking and complex processing speed. 2 million years ago, people just like me discovered that if you rub 2 sticks together, the thermal energy will excite the carbons in the sticks, which will cause the carbon to bond with 2 oxygens. And with the discovery of combustion, out of thin air, we have our first instance of science. If you know me, you would know that my favorite thing is science."
"I grew up starting to love everything my brothers love, whether it was the shows they watched or the...
