ED BURNS (CO-CREATOR): I was at Hamilton Middle School. After the first year, our test results hovered between one percent and three percent. I went to the principal. She was an open-minded woman. I said, “I had this idea between the stoop kid and the corner kid.” She says, “First off, I don’t like those terminologies. Can we think of something else?” I said, “I just have something here for you: acclimated and unacclimated.” “How do we decide that?” I said, “It’s very simple. The kid that can sit in the chair, he’s acclimated, and if he can’t sit in the chair, he’s not acclimated.”
