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x_losNothing in the world is more satisfying than looking at something you wrote a few days later, when the Creation high has worn off, and thinking 'Damn. I wish I wasn't me, so I could read this fresh, because it'd be awesome.' I never ever get that rush, except, apparently, with this Kid's Next Door fic Kel and I are writing. I personally know that if I hadn't been involved in the creation, it would amuse the hell out of me. If you watch the show at all, here's the link. <http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1824307&chapter=1>
A nice Japanese woman just came into the office for a packet. She only wants to buy in the Hickman school district (the town's other High School) because she's heard it was better. It was all I could do to take that politely, instead of grabbing her tiny Asian frame, shaking her and screaming 'It's not True! We're better, Better! Whoever told you that spoke LIES!' Our community is pretty deeply divided on the high school issue. Most of the Chief Citizens went to Hickman (they had to- it's older, RBHS just opened in the 70's), and it's tried and true cocktail party scuttle butt that Rock Bridge, which is a non-traditional school with a more innovative curriculum and more independence-fostering policies, doesn't educate up to par. Personally, I think this is crap. We shelled out 13 National Merit kids to their eight with a senior class half their size. I know that a school doesn't make National Merit students smart- hell, most of the time I felt RBHS was holding back my intellectual pursuits more than anything- but it's a typical 'proof' the Hickmanite traditional education advocates have held up, their having more National Merit kids, frequently ignoring that they have 1)the richest neighborhoods and 2) many more students. I for one not only support Rock Bridge's more liberal educational values, I don't think they go near far enough.
Plus, friends of mine who went to Hickman come out EXACTLY the same people they were in Junior High. Whereas the increased freedom and personal responsibility at Rock Bridge makes people more confident and cool, the cloistered Junior-High atmosphere of Hickman perpetuates more of the same. With few exceptions, Rock Bridge kids are more mature, socially, personally and academically, than their Hickman counterparts. And that's a benefit that can't be measured or easily dissected by the Cocktail Crowd, but one of the most invaluable things that can be imparted by any education.
Japanese woman just came back in. I had to explained that, being the fastest growing city in the state, indeed, any map she had in her possession would be useless, listing about 75% of the current streets. Even one printed just a year ago is woefully inadequate. It's sad when the streets in my town are growing so fast that there's entire regions of the place I haven't been to yet because they're brand spankin' new.
A nice Japanese woman just came into the office for a packet. She only wants to buy in the Hickman school district (the town's other High School) because she's heard it was better. It was all I could do to take that politely, instead of grabbing her tiny Asian frame, shaking her and screaming 'It's not True! We're better, Better! Whoever told you that spoke LIES!' Our community is pretty deeply divided on the high school issue. Most of the Chief Citizens went to Hickman (they had to- it's older, RBHS just opened in the 70's), and it's tried and true cocktail party scuttle butt that Rock Bridge, which is a non-traditional school with a more innovative curriculum and more independence-fostering policies, doesn't educate up to par. Personally, I think this is crap. We shelled out 13 National Merit kids to their eight with a senior class half their size. I know that a school doesn't make National Merit students smart- hell, most of the time I felt RBHS was holding back my intellectual pursuits more than anything- but it's a typical 'proof' the Hickmanite traditional education advocates have held up, their having more National Merit kids, frequently ignoring that they have 1)the richest neighborhoods and 2) many more students. I for one not only support Rock Bridge's more liberal educational values, I don't think they go near far enough.
Plus, friends of mine who went to Hickman come out EXACTLY the same people they were in Junior High. Whereas the increased freedom and personal responsibility at Rock Bridge makes people more confident and cool, the cloistered Junior-High atmosphere of Hickman perpetuates more of the same. With few exceptions, Rock Bridge kids are more mature, socially, personally and academically, than their Hickman counterparts. And that's a benefit that can't be measured or easily dissected by the Cocktail Crowd, but one of the most invaluable things that can be imparted by any education.
Japanese woman just came back in. I had to explained that, being the fastest growing city in the state, indeed, any map she had in her possession would be useless, listing about 75% of the current streets. Even one printed just a year ago is woefully inadequate. It's sad when the streets in my town are growing so fast that there's entire regions of the place I haven't been to yet because they're brand spankin' new.
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Date: 2004-04-25 03:08 pm (UTC)Is is school truly more than what you can make of it?
.. of course, there's always a sense of loyalty.
Do you ever think with all those new streets, all that new development creates all new pollution? Not to mention ZPG..
Incidentally, I hate liberal arts educations. Just look where I'm going to school next year. ^^