EDUCATION
NOT JUST
CHILD’S PLAY
Club Pure members Tristan Cole,
left, 12, and Dylan Hughes, right,
9, compete in a friendly game of
chess in the after care program
as Shanique James, 9, and Zoe
Gormley, 10, watch intently.
BY DEBRA MAGRANN
An interactive day club for pre- and gradeschoolers
to build on a solid foundation
If your defining moments of childhood were
marked by watching the original Mickey Mouse
Club on a black-and-white TV and you remember
Head Mouseketeer Jimmy Dodd encouraging
impressionable young viewers to always do the right
thing, it might be natural to think wholesome wisdom
like that has faded away.
The good news is that old-fashioned principles are
being modeled and taught to children — from infants
to tweens — who are being trained with the ethics of
the Golden Rule in mind.
Club Pure in Port St. Lucie is not a nightclub. It’s a
day club for children that mixes studies with sensible
use of technology and throws in lots of creative energy. >>
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