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• What a terrific exercise Matt. I really enjoyed listening to the audio of it that Janice sent me. You should post it on your site. I can’t believe the school library is only opened once a week; these kids deserve more. Hopefully you can inspire and organize the community to demand more for their children.

  We just experienced a real near apocalypse here in New York with hurricane Sandy. Our local high school library here in Croton-on-Hudson became a real place of refuge after the storm for students who needed a warm place to study, to charge electronic devices, or just a place with light to read. The library also streamed live video for those who wanted to watch election night coverage.

  We were fortunate to live in a community that was able to get it school infrastructure back in working order, and sees its school as not just a place of physical refuge, but also of intellectual refuge.

  There were other communities who experienced truly apocalyptic devastation, and are far from recovery. The vulnerable Far Rockaway and Red Hook communities in particular come to mind. See links below:

  http://gothamschools.org/2012/11/08/students-in-rockaway-schools-go-elsewhere-or-nowhere-at-all/

  http://gothamschools.org/2012/11/06/red-hook-principals-scramble-to-find-space-for-damaged-school/

  http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/nov/09/residents-public-housing-red-hook-complain-sub-standard-conditions/

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