A very talented storyteller from UNICEF transported the children into the wonders of reading and they then had an opportunity to add their own thoughts and ideas to the "Travelling Book" that accompanied the horse trail from school to school.
According to Bennett, who also spent six years running nightclubs in Soho, the official paper trail a school is supposed to leave will simply not exist, "because if a school is very bad at recording bad behaviour then it will look pristine.
During the day, it's a commuter trail for school kids and workers; now it's sharp and empty against the clear night sky.
As it turns out, on the same morning my daughter and I were sloppily blazing a trail to school, the students of Pascack Valley Regional High School District in neighboring New Jersey were attending "virtual" classroom sessions from the comfort of home.
A 2003 study by the National Association for Educational Progress found that charter schools trail ordinary public schools; a Rand study last year concluded that scores in them "are keeping pace with, but not exceeding" those in traditional public schools, and do not show better results for minority students.
Today, the property has eight lakes, 22 miles of cross-country biking and hiking trails, and school buildings completed in 2002.
The Montclair-like village Jon Katz called Rochambeau in his "Suburban Detective" series -- first title: "Death by Station Wagon" -- featured a toy store with a "Gifted and Talented" department and a mom who trailed the school bus in her Volvo just in case her child needed anything.
On the same day, Michigan was the highest-rated Big Ten team in the Ratings Percentage Index, although the team trailed several schools in the national polls.
"The aim is to create a sculpture trail around the school," he says.
" 'And don't worry about what can go wrong.' " She talks on the campaign trail about high school advisers who tried to dissuade her from applying to Princeton because they thought her scores were not good enough.
