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Meet author Gary Chattman. Garry will be chatting about his new book, My Child Left Behind.
About the author:
Retired teacher/administrator, New York City Public Schools; author of five published books: “Coming of Age”: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Without Hebrew School; “The Quixotic Teacher”: one man’s journey through the morass of pubic education; a novel of success in face of beaurocracy; educrats who have never taught a day in their lives, yet make education policy; success in educating and motivating children to learn; “If I Should Die Before I Wake”: a novel of Jewish religious identity; “My Diary: Stories written by Teens about Jewish History’; and “Happiness, You Came Too Late”: about the affects of AIDS on a nuclear family.
Hebrew Schools simply aren’t succeeding in melding our children to our faith. I have had tremendous success doing this “melding” and giving our Jewish children identity!
Playing concerts in the metropolitan area to illustrate the themes of my books. Most times I bring students (both past and present) to join me; they sing, they play instruments…I run a weekly sing-along at the Riverdale Y where I play songs from a songbook I fashioned. The audience requests songs and we “sing-a-long.” I have also performed programs highlighting such composers as George Gershwin for members of the “Y” and for Holocaust Survivors, including one highlighting Sholom Aleichem and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
