Announcement:

I'm done! (Grading that is.) Ugh. It's my least favorite part of this job. If I were a different kind of person, I'd see it as the best opportunity ever to combine grace and truth in a unique opportunity to speak into my student / disciples lives.

Or maybe I meant if I lived in a different kind of world (though, I suppose if I lived in a different kind of world, i'd end up being a different kind of person). Because if I lived in that other, better world....? I wouldn't have 65 different students to speak to. With grace and truth in a ...blah, blah, blah. And I know that I'm lucky. I have it easy. 65! Some of you are thinking...what I'd give for a mere 65 students!

But in this world that i live in, albeit dreamily, with a happy fantasy about the other world, this is what we believe about education:

1. every person has exactly the same needs.

2. every person can use exactly the same information delivered in exactly the same ways to meet those needs.

3. every person starts out on equal playing ground, having gotten no more and no less resources than anyone else.

4. standards used to evaluate such equivalent beings should be rigid, high, and clearly articulated.

5. Because if they are (rigid, high & obvious) then the beings who manage to leap them, and those who don't will all realize that what they've gotten is:

an EXCELLENT education.

Excellent.

I'm going to watch Terry Gilliam's commentary on 8 1/2 right now. And tomorrow I'll catch up on emails. Sorry to all who I owe...