Remember Timothy Winters? Tiny Tim? We left him somewhere in a playground on his first day of Big School, contemplating his possible fate. His mother was blubbing, his trousers were flapping, his feet were quaking in his tiny, new boots, and his hair resembled a golf divot.
A small, introvert child in a big extrovert world.
What happens to these silent pupils? Where do they go? How’s he doing so far? Little Tim vs the Curriculum? Who’s winning? There he goes bouncing from subject to subject like a pinball. Ping! The Romans! Ping! Press ups! Ping! Photosynthesis! Ping! Quadratics! It’s called a curriculum.
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