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Fly Away Home

My 9th graders are graduating in two days. In my very last assignment for them, I asked them how they feel about this. Not surprisingly, many of them are nervous about starting high school, and sad to leave their friends. One of my best students, Ben, had written a long and heartfelt note about how [...]

G-day: success

Despite having walked through the Campanile before, and thereby flouting the campus curse (legend has it that if you walk through before your graduation day, you’ll never graduate), I managed to successfully walk through it again yesterday. Just barely, mind you; I had to run panting up the hill while the half-hour bell tolled, indicating [...]