A Story
“An Arab sheik was getting along in his years and he felt that it was time to name one of his sons as his successor. Now he had three sons who were triplets. He loved them all equally and did not know which one of them to choose as a successor. So he sent them off to a distant land and promised them that the one who came back with the most useful learning would get the birthright.
The three went off to distant lands; they attended universities and visited exotic places. The first brother invented magic glasses with which he could see any place he wished to see. The second son perfected a flying carpet on which he could travel to any part of the earth in five minutes. The third son discovered a medicine that could cure any sickness.
After some years the three brothers came together and shared what they had done and found.
The first son looked through his magic glasses and saw his father dying. The second son invited his brothers to hop on his flying carpet and within five minutes they were at their father’s bedside. As soon as they were there the third son took out his medicine and cured their father at once.
Now the Sheik was more confused than ever, since it took the work of all three of them to save his life …” (author unknown).
The truth of the importance of working together contained in this story is something we strive for at ACS in a variety of ways: grade level teams, educational assistants and teachers, collaborative groupings of students, to name a few. Perhaps the most important is working together with the parents. We are grateful for that privilege.
