“The Play’s the Thing….”

“The Play’s the Thing….”

Before I get to the point of this essay, I want to tell you a story that I hope you will find interesting. Paul D. Schreiber High School is in Port Washington, New York, only 23 miles from Times Square, the beating heart of New York City. Like most public high schools sixty years ago, Schreiber was rigidly tracked, 1-5. The Ones and the Twos, clean cut kids with last names like Wilshire and Braddock, were destined for college and success, so the…