ABSTRACT
It’s 2:35 p.m. and eight students sit around a table in the Learning Center. Amid munching on cookies, they fight over the sign-in sheet and exchange comments about the day’s events with each other, the adults who are there to teach them, and those who stop by for a cookie of their own. Although the cookies may seem insignificant to an outsider, they are very important to us. The eight students are committed to staying after school for an extra hour and a half 2 days a week. Besides the fact that many of them haven’t eaten all day, by 2:30 in the afternoon we all could use some extra nourishment.
