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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tangent Around, multiple daily podcast briefing of
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all the goings ons, ins and rounds, arts and ideas, Sudbury School.
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So I'm back.
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I took a week off and it was a great week.
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I got a lot done on my project, Math Pibbles, and I mean I've got seven years left of stuff
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to do, but it was very heartening to have that good start and hopefully over the summer
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I can make some real, real progress.
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So I appreciate that.
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I also managed to take care of a variety of things around the house.
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Preparation for being here for the next four weeks.
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Typically this would have been the last week of school, but we extended the school year
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by three weeks because of all the pandemic shutdown and so we've got three more weeks
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after this one.
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So that's exciting.
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It will go very fast.
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If the weather would stay like this for the next four weeks, it'd be awesome, but it's
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not.
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It's going to get hot.
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But today is beautiful, absolutely beautiful, a little on the cloudy side, although that's
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quite helpful.
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But yeah, it's great to be back.
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And what a day to come back to.
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We did announcements in the morning and then had a quick JC of a couple cases.
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I had to run it.
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Our past JC clerk has decided to step down for now.
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I thank them for their service and if anyone listening wants to be JC clerk, let me know.
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I'm going to probably announce it in Discord and we can have an election tomorrow if somebody
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wants to be the JC clerk for June.
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In any event, let's see, what else?
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So after JC we had our staff speeches, wonderful as always to hear lots of what the staff say
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and all the questions.
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What I noticed about the questions was it came from a lot of young people or new people
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to the school who essentially were asking for a history of how the staff got here, which
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I thought was really nice and brilliant.
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We tend to forget that the history that we know about ourselves is not what the history
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of what all these other kids do.
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So it's a really great time to actually get to know the staff.
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And then after that we did the actual voting.
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As of right now I do not know the results of the election, so we'll see.
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Typically it's pretty favorable to the staff, but you never know.
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And yeah, so it's kind of a nice calm time after.
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What was really impressive was that everyone actually came out to the tent.
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I had to push a few people, if you will, I mean not physically push them of course, but
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go around and tell them and there was one young one that took some persuading to actually
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come out and do it and sit under the tent.
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But I think everybody stayed for the whole speeches, which was like an hour long.
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And then I think everyone did the voting, it's all mandatory, so I'd hope so.
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And so that was exciting.
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For an hour just sitting here listening to all this stuff and being of pretty much good
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cheer.
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So that was really great to see and experience and to see everybody kind of treating it seriously
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with respect and just hearing what everybody had to say.
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I think a big focus of what I ended up saying, and I didn't really know what I was going
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to say until I said it, was just about trust and my love of how much trust there is in
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this school.
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The trust reflected between the students, between the students and staff, between the
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parents and the students and the staff and just everything.
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This whole community is just so much built on trust and I'd say most communities are,
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that's what makes a good community, community really is trusting one another to some extent.
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And then, yeah, so yeah, I just kind of kept saying that when they answered, asked questions
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about things and so forth.
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So that's great.
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In my talk about Tuesday for today, I talked about what staff do, thought it was topical
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given that, you know, we are, that, you know, that was what was essentially being decided
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on.
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I did mention during my speech about, you know, how it is actually quite unusual for
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students to, or children to have the power of shaping the community around them in such
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a direct way.
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I mean, I kind of knew that, but you know, certainly compared with say conventional schooling
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or other things that kids just find themselves in.
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But I think even, you know, even more historically, tribally or whatever, it's like they come
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into what they have, you know, like it's, it is what's existing around them.
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You know, and they just kind of accept and they figure out and they figure out how to
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navigate things and that's just, you know, so the idea that
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they're actually participating in this, I mean, it's quite amazing to think of putting
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that out there for them and I hope they appreciate it somewhat, it's a good thing, but alright.
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I've kind of droned on enough, so I guess I'll call it there and I will see you when
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I, oh, school meeting is tomorrow at one.
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It was shifted because of staff election stuff.
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So yeah, I'll see you when I see you, bye bye.