Right Turn: Coming at you from a beach down south

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! teachers! leave the kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall.

Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in The Wall,” which became the ultimate anthem to kick off summer vacation, works just as well during March Break, wrapping up in certain jurisdictions this week.

As over-programmed and overworked students take a week – or sometimes two – to recharge their batteries, and parents quickly wrap up office work before they head home to do laundry and pack and drive the dog to the kennel and water the plants so they can go south with their children and escape winter, I give you this homage to students who appear to have been influenced by play-based learning, a popular educational practice for early childhood educators in countries around the world.

So please watch the video below, or don’t. For your sake, I hope you’re on a beach somewhere and not reading this. I am.

(And if this seems familiar, it’s because those City of Hope high school students, funded by California’s Stem Cell Agency (CIRM), keep singing about their stem cell research internships. Here’s yet another example. )

Our regular feature, Right Turn, appears every Friday and we invite you to submit your own blog to info(at)ccrm.ca. We encourage you to be creative and use the right (!) side of your brain. We dare you to make us laugh! Right Turn features cartoons, photos, videos and other content to amuse, educate and encourage discussion.

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Stacey Johnson

Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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