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welcome to ANI in the air wondrous Wednesday where I talk about something
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wondrous so yesterday was staff elections and well all the staff got
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voted back just wondrous but you know I just thought you know yesterday I talked
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about the staff there is a phone on the chair oh well and so I thought you know
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today I was just going to talk a little bit about the wonder of entrusting
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students with the power of choice and trust it's well it's wondrous it's a
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little bit crossing the lines between Tuesday and Wednesday but you know
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whatever we're getting to the end of the season people the final season of in the
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air so we'll go a little crazy on formatting a little bit so anyway
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wondrous what is actually wondrous about it well you know the the idea that you
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know children have something very valuable to contribute to the governing
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of a community is actually something I think pretty novel and it's a pretty
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wondrous thing that they actually do that they that they do have
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understanding of what's going on things that are relevant to them it often gets
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obscured because obviously they're not ready to do the things that aren't
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relevant to them you know like actually working a job although of course
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children have worked jobs in the past and if fortunately stop that but you
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know the idea that they're not just simply following along they're actually
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creating that they're making something that this is you know they are living
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their life and they are contributing to one another and the community and and
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informally they are completely creating the environment they find themselves in
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with others and formally they do participate sometimes a little
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begrudgingly you know many of them are probably like why do we have to vote on
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this can't the staff to stay here and not really appreciating what it is that
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you know having that election means that they actually do get to vote I think the
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older ones probably do appreciate it and understand it I think no one feels it's
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like essential to having good governance of the school by the staff that's not
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the point if that was a concern you get new staff but it is a way of saying you
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know we agree to you being here and having the voice that you do in this
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community and it's important because you know staff being adults can actually do
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quite a bit of just presence power if you will and so it's saying from the
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students that in this one instance we are being asked whether your presence is
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okay with us and therefore everything you do is okay with us and it's amazing
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that I think they really do think about it many of them and really like you know
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they learned that so it's a wondrous thing a wondrous event it's wondrous to
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be able to trust children you know my speech yesterday and the answers to my
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questions yesterday was all about trust and it really is something wondrous that
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this community trusts itself not everybody not all the time but you know
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fundamentally we trust one another you know that the students govern the school
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quite literally they are looking out for one another they are voicing what is
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right and what is wrong according to our rules we have this framework and when
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they question it you know this is what we are you know relying on is is our
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formal structures to get the decisions of the community so that we can all
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continue trusting one another it's it's really quite wondrous so that is my
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wondrous Wednesday just the wonder of really having a trusting community made
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up largely of children functioning and you know really working out and doing
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great things for everybody that is to me pure wonder and amazing all right well
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that is my wondrous Wednesday have a good one and I will see you when I see
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you