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Something exceptional is going on at Loudon Elementary School, and it has nothing to do with awards, sports or scholastic endeavors.
There’s knitting going on, and the students are inspired.
Loudon Elementary is an idyllic little campus in Southwest Bakersfield dotted lushly by landscaped quads and immaculate concrete corridors, not at all showing its age of 19 years. It is a Title I school — meaning many students are at risk for not achieving state-defined academic proficiency — that faces a variety of challenges, including keeping kids in the classroom. In other words, Loudon is not the typical Panama-Buena Vista Union School District school.
There’s one thing, though, that sets them apart from their higher-achieving district counterparts: They knit.
It started sometime before Christmas, when Title I Clerk Lynne Eid felt a tugging on her heart to do something for a student who was having trouble staying in school.
“I got a...
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