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Welcome to Arts and Ideas, in the air, under the tent, and around Baltimore, your daily
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podcast briefing of all the goings ons, ins and arounds, Arts and Ideas, Sudbury School.
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So today, another beautiful day.
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It's a little hot under the tent during school meeting, but it was pretty nice.
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I had a nice short JC, three cases, two of which got dropped and one got a warning, and
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you know, I do have something to think about that, it's just, you know, there's something
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to be said for having, you know, just being called to account, even, you know, regardless
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of whatever happened and just having that conversation, you know, no consequences happen.
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It does become nice and sort of known.
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So there's that.
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We had school meeting, which I think was like an hour and a half almost, which was much
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longer than I was anticipating.
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We recreated Field Trip Corporation, and we, well, have an item for assembly from school
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meeting.
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Basically, a former student wants to come for the last week of school, which ordinarily
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would be fine, but we have a prohibition against visitors.
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I mean, they're still of student age, and they are fully vaccinated, so it seems fine.
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But technically, by our medical policy, we can't do that.
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So we'll have to submit something for assembly, which is happening this Thursday, that's cool.
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We also had a discussion on, like, just bringing it to a school meeting, you know, that there
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is money for private schools if they do standardized testing.
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So we talked about it and firmly rejected the idea of any kind of mandatory standardized
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testing here at the school.
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So no thanks to the money, I guess, but, you know, there was reasons to go for it in terms
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of, you know, being open to a wider range of people for the school, but ultimately the
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price is just too high.
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And then we talked about what we liked or disliked about the changes we made this year.
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Parking lot being closed was a big win.
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Having no short time was a big loser.
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They are very clear that they love short time.
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And everything else was kind of a bit of a muddled, you know, response.
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It could go either way, but yeah, some of the changes were good, some were not.
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So yeah, I guess we'll see what happens when we can finally unwind all this stuff.
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But I think the closing of the parking lot will probably become permanent.
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Maybe we can make that permanent assembly/school meeting.
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That's really unclear whose jurisdiction that is.
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And I think short time will come back whenever it's appropriate because that was a very...
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People really love short time.
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I was surprised.
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Yeah, it's just a nice fun time.
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And there was a student who was new this year who actually came up and spoke in favor of
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short time, even though they'd never experienced it.
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They were just like, "This sounds like a great idea."
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So well, there's that.
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All right, and then we had a nice practice thesis defense.
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We've got two more over the next two days.
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And yeah, it's great to sit and talk with the graduates and go over their thesis and
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reading their theses.
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I mean, it's really been enjoyable so far.
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It's really an honor to be seeing our students about to go embark into the adult world and
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kind of reflecting on their time here and what's coming up and just seeing the kind
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of great presentation that they do, both in their writing and presenting.
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I kind of understand why some schools have it actually at assembly than doing some stuff,
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because it's great to share.
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But I'm happy that that is what has happened.
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Anyway, I did a talk about Tuesday on how do students know what they don't know kind
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of thing, rambled for a while.
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And I guess that's it.
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So have a good one and I will see you when I see you.