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That is the main thing I want you to do on the field trip. You're not going to be sitting in the classroom on the field trip going through English, History, Science, Math all at one time. So Julie and Colleen and Leia basically kept a notebook. It's going to be a long day on Friday. We'll be going out and it's a 90-mile trip and it's not going to be any rush.

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We're not going to race to the ocean and come back. So what I'm going to do is ask your parents to give you from $0.75 to $1.00 so that you'll be able to buy dinner. Some of you know how to make dinner. I know how to make a dinner.

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Okay, Benjamin. You saw places like... Alright, listen. I've broken them down into various categories and we're going to have to go show them. We have to rent them.

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Oh. Persians, honeydews, cassavas, and watermelons. Next week, I called about the test. Last year, some of you remember...

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On the field trip... There could be a plastic bottle. Kimberly, do you have one? Kenyon School is probably unique as a public school in that it has a local school board

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which governs the 38 pupils and the teachers and not only does it govern, but it also works very closely along with the teachers and the students in getting the kind of education we think is the best. A lot of times we let the kids take over.

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We try and make as close to a democratic process as possible so the school has much more meaning to each pupil. I feel very strongly about the small school concept. It should be something that should be tried anyway.

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There's lots of money spent in experimenting and other things, camping programs and stuff. The president of our school board here feels very strongly, his name being George Mengi, that city schools should get into a block concept whereby you would have one or two blocks which would send their children to a particular school.

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The parents would be on the school board. They would be making the decisions. You would have a lot closer bonding between parents, students, educators, and all of this than you do now. Some of the school districts in this county are having a lot of problems in regards to this

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in that the school board is too far removed from the individual school, individual parent, individual child. We don't have that problem here and that's one of the strongest things that we have going for us. Would you call that community involvement? I'd call that community involvement, yes I would.

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I think it's a wonderful school because we have our own school board and we can decide what we want to do. In some ways it's free but it's not a free school. It's structured in the morning. The afternoons we're free to go on trips or go swimming or study about stars or anything.

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And there's a nursery school here and the people are involved in the school. They come down and help and it's part of the community and it's just a wonderful place. Many things can be said for and against this school but one thing it doesn't lack is community involvement. For To Use Watch at Canyon School in Contra Costa County, this is Frank Johnstone.