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Welcome to in the air, under the tent, and around Baltimore.
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This is your daily podcast briefing of all the goings ons, in and arounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So today, it was actually a pretty nice day. Still a little bit of chill. Feet are getting cold.
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And, let's see, we had a 1JC case today, which actually inspired me to put a new motion and a new rule amendment in the school meeting, which I'll get to in a moment.
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The case was sort of about Lego. Someone had made some Lego construction, left it out, and then somebody else kind of took it apart and put it away.
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To the extent that it was messing around with something, or just trying to be neat, it wasn't terribly clear entirely, but I thought that was an interesting debate to listen to.
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And, you know, we have a whip rule, which I think would apply in that case, and so hopefully that can be used in the future to make it clear that this is somebody wanting to come back to this thing.
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So that was our JC, and then we had a school meeting, and in the school meeting we passed several things. We expanded the requirements of having two people near power tools before it was just stationary power tools, and now it's just all power tools.
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And then we passed a rule about no messing with the tent. You know, our tent is really quite stable. The poles are quite well placed in the ratchets and all the other stuff.
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But, nevertheless, it's a little unnerving to see somebody trying to swing around a pole that's holding up a tent, so we made that rule to make sure that that doesn't happen.
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And then we have, as I mentioned, I wanted to modify the whip rule. So, first of all, let me back up. A whip is a work in progress, and that's sort of to say, look, I'm doing something here, leave it alone. That's a great idea.
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Now, before it used to expire just at chore time, and it also had to be cleaned up before one left. And so we don't have chore time, and sometimes it needs to be held overnight, so that Lego thing should be overnight.
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Now, there was a thing where you could ask the closing people whether it's okay, but, you know, from one day to the next doesn't seem to make too much difference. I do want it to be clarified on the weekends simply because we have cleaners that come and whatever. I want to have that conversation.
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And also kind of a new week, new start. So I got rid of those things, and then I put in that a whip must have a name, names of the people involved, date and time expiration that is within 24 hours of when it's created.
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And so, and then whips can be renewed, so you can keep it going and going. It's just evidence that someone is paying attention to it. That's what I care about. But then, you know, I don't want it to be a way to just possess something forever.
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And so I said that if it's maybe renewed unless someone objects, in which case there can be only one further renewal after the objection is made known. So kind of a, okay, now I'm going to finish this up and put it away.
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And school meeting approved that, so I was happy. I thought there'd be a bit more debate or discussion about some of the parameters, but I don't know. It's easy going today.
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And then we also got a budget of $300 for the workshop corporation. It actually is being used. Some of our students this year, so that's pretty exciting. And they wanted some kind of new cool little saw or something.
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Let's see what else. Oh yes. So on Halloween, which by the way, people are, online students are invited to come that day because we just love Halloween. Again, there's no food, no food on Halloween, but there are students who are trying to make a cool little haunted house out of the art room.
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And so starting tomorrow at noon, the art room will be reserved for the construction and making of this haunted house through the end of Halloween. So I'm looking forward to that.
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And then we had a brief discussion on school sweatshirts. Oh shoot, and I didn't put down the adjournment time. Oh, bad on me. I'm going to say it's 1.23. It was pretty early. It was before 1.30, I know that.
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Alright, so that was school meeting. And then afterwards it seemed like, you know, a bunch of people were eating by the picnic tables. Other students were, you know, messing around with the wood fort by the fallen tree.
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Others were on the slack line doing all sorts of things. Looked really kind of fun and cool. And they had even checked out the weight limit because they had like four or five of them on there. And they checked the weight limit on the thing and it was like two or three thousand pounds.
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They were all good. We don't got no students that would... I don't think you could fit enough students to break that limit. Alrighty, so that was the day. I did make a Talk About Tuesday podcast that was also available. That was on Discovery, I guess it was.
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So check that out, it's very brief. I kind of had a long day, so trying to keep these things brief.
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Alright, yeah have a good one. See you all tomorrow. Oh, I guess tomorrow there will be this history class kind of follow up to the bicycles and the great war. Thursday at 11 is that article club item with mature topic. And then Friday is Halloween. So that's the week for you.
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No check in meetings this week for anybody because we're done with that. We've done it with everybody so that's cool. Anyway, have a good one and see you all around tomorrow.