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April 11, 2011
Posing as Black’s opposite (and a tree), Dennis Walcott arrives
Chancellor-designee Dennis Walcott joined P.S. 261 first graders for a dance and movement class.
On his first visit to a public school since being named Chancellor-designee, Dennis Walcott breezed through Brooklyn’s P.S. 261 like the warm weather soothing the city today. As he strode in, memories of March and his deposed predecessor, Cathie Black, seemed to fade.
He chatted easily with third graders about gardening, read to a class of first graders, and took his turn at kickball during second graders’ recess. Dropping in on a dance and movement class, Walcott climbed onstage and, following a teacher’s orders, posed like a flower, then like a tree, and then tried to follow along with the class’s “alley cat dance” steps.
“I feel like I’m in a commercial,” said a first-grade student.
“A commercial?” said Walcott, laughing. “Some people may see it that way.” (more…)
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