When I supervised a playground some years ago I watched how the children chose playmates and activities, how they spoke to each other and shared important information they had gleaned from the conversation of adults and other young people in an effort to learn how to align themselves. We all grow up with our biases. We cannot escape them.
Teaching elementary chapel from kindergarten through fifth grade—all at one time—was a joy for me. I had thirty minutes to sing, pray, and teach stories from the Bible. One particular series studied young people in the Bible who did great things. I dramatized David versus Goliath, Gideon and his glow stick bearing army (the Israelites had torches but those aren’t school approved) and a servant girl in the Book of II Kings who bravely spoke up about a prophet in Israel who could heal