In my posting yesterday I noted that I'm reading Creating Emotionally Safe Schools by Jane Bluestein. In my reading this morning the author mentioned her all-time favorite Twilight Zone episode which all happens to be my favorite episode, too. Jane summarizes the episode writing, "...a young woman, waits in a hospital room, her face swathed in bandages, waiting to see the results of a plastic surgeon's final attempt to reconstruct her face so that she can live among 'normal' people. In a feat of remarkable camera work, you don't actually see anyone's face throught the entire show until the bandages are removed, revealing a perfectly lovely young woman--much to her horror and the horror of everyone around her. Only when the camera reveals the grotesquely distorted faces of the doctors and nurses do you realize that, in this society, the standards for beauty are quite different from those of the show's intended audience."
It is important for us to remember this episode when we tend to judge or criticize based on a criteria that makes any of our Esperanza scholars look like he or she doesn't measure up.
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