By Claudine Ribeiro - JPCCC Director It is a common thought that school is like a second home for children. Seven or more hours a day are spent there, 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year. In the ideal world, the school has the potential to be the incubator, the catalyst for adulthood, as the child searches to find meaning and understanding in his world. Schooling potentially can and should go well beyond academic and cognitive development, focusing on the whole child, including