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Why we do what we do?  

 

At three years old, I practiced and work hard on learning to spell and write my unusually long and hard to pronounce first name D-a-w-n-y-i-e-l-l-e.  Mastering it finally on a hand-cut piece of tag board while at preschool, I eagerly (and patiently) waited to share the “good news”with my teacher.  After several false starts at getting her attention, she finally acknowledged me toward the end of the day rather flatly and with a  “that’s nice” without even once looking at my clever penmanship or me in the eye.  My three year old self reasoned, “She should know better.  She has not been properly taught.” Fast forward to today….