The commitments made by school visitors and reading helpers cannot be a flash in the pan.
And generally the text takes on a "you are there" tone that strains to be engaging to school visitors.
This leaves teachers and other school visitors in a bind, because most are from out of the area.
Mr. Konwerski did emphasize that most high school visitors are accompanied by a student host or are part of a scholarship program, which has policies in place to ensure an alcohol-free visit.
"It's like being the mayor of a town," said Susan Baer, the airport's general manager who lives in Montclair and arranged the V.I.P. treatment for the adult school visitors.
To cater to their 14,000 school visitors a year, she tells me, as she walks me through an exhibition on magic at Weston Park (themed around children's literature, with a Narnia wardrobe and faux-fur coats), they will be offering training to teachers, so that they can guide their own pupils round the exhibits.
The Sultan of Brunei owns the Dorchester; Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal has refitted his Savoy, to the dismay of old-school visitors; and this summer the Barclay brothers sold their stake in Claridge's, the Berkeley and the Connaught to a business controlled by Qatari sovereign funds, after the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority had reportedly offered £1.6bn.
There will also be a new volunteer and skills programme and a schools programme that will reach an additional 6,000 school visitors a year.
Cameron said that all public services – including, nurseries, schools, health visitors and job centres – needed to play a party in tacking "prejudice and bigotry" and building integration.
But this extra layer of bureaucracy and intrusion – and the peculiar subliminal message that all adults are guilty until rendered innocent by check-up – will certainly stop both schools and visitors from the outside world from making the considerable effort to create the kind of magical encounter that a visit can be.
