Weast cuts "Miss Frizzle"

School Scene by Sue Katz Miller  

Three years ago, Piney Branch Elementary School had a Math, Science and Computer Science program designed to bridge the gap between the gifted program at Takoma Park Elementary School, and the magnet at Takoma Park Middle School. Three teachers (a GT coordinator, a computer science teacher, and science teacher Leila Campbell) worked with every student in the school, not just those identified as gifted. By this year, the program had dwindled to a single position, held by the magical Leila Campbell, a teacher often compared to "Miss Frizzle," the science teacher who drives the magic school bus in the series of the same name...

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