Three middle school campers sit to the left of me. I'm writing a poem (from perspective of an African American soldier returning home from WW2 as hero only to face racism). They are all working on original historical comics, deeply focused on their work, with intricate drawings and interesting stories. I ask them, do their teachers ever allow them to show learning through comics? They laugh. No, is the answer I get, from all three. Those teachers don't know what they're missing. #smallstories