This I Believe Rhode Island
(2011-11-01)
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In his compelling memoir, Self-consciousness, the novelist John Updike observed that "the essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever." If only it were true that the innocence children know would never be stolen from them prematurely. Sadly, as Michael Obel-Omia notes, too often self-serving adults conspire to strip away what children should be able to cling to for a long, long time.
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Michael Obel-Omia is head of the Paul Cuffee School in Providence. He has been working in education as a teacher, coach, administrator, and school leader since 1988. Obel-Omia lives with his wife, Carolyn, and three children in Barrington.
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