Reading across Topaz Elementary, follow-up

I just got back from Topaz Elementary School, where I read Robert Munsch’s Show and Tell for Mrs. Guiterrez‘s fourth grade class for Read Across America Day.

This went tons better than Career Day at Hesperia High School last year: In addition to enjoying the book and being a great audience (even the few who didn’t like the book were exceptionally well-behaved), the fourth graders absolutely grilled me about being a reporter.

I think there might be a Hesperia Star column in next week’s paper about this, so I’ll save the details for then, but I will note that the kids were absolutely flabbergasted that I wasn’t rich.

Please direct similar sentiments to Editor Peter Day and Publisher Stephan Wingert.

4 Comments »

1. I’m sadly not surprised the kids were flabbergasted you weren’t rich. Pretty
   much every depiction of a “reporter” in movies or TV has the “reporter” in
   question living a completely unrealistic lifestyle. Of course, I understand. No
   one — and this includes me — wants to watch a movie where a fat, balding,
   40-something reporter on his fourth marriage eats Spaghetti-os straight out of
   a can.

   Comment by Todd — March 3, 2006 @ 16:54

2. OK, now you’re being silly.

   What reporter could find four people willing to marry them?

   Comment by Beau — March 4, 2006 @ 0:53

3. OK. Third marriage. And at least one of them was to a low end
   stripper/prostitute. Better?

   Comment by Todd — March 4, 2006 @ 17:50

4. Certainly more plausible.

   Comment by Beau — March 12, 2006 @ 16:50

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