In a time of 40 students per class, where teacher spend half the year learning your name only to forget it the instant the final grade reports are completed, our student body knows not only names, but birth dates and, in all likelihood, favorite colors. In a class of six, no one slips through the cracks. When we discuss everyone has a say. Twenty year from today, if one of us becomes famous, the rest of the class will not be able to say, She was always a very quiet child. You are held accountable for your performance within school and your actions without.
Accountability is really what it s all about.
In a school as small as ours, what you learn, above all, is that your actions have an immense effect on those around you. This is what people are talking about when they say that we need to have responsibility and that we need to recognize the consequences of our actions. Perhaps it would do us all some good to take a step back in history. Wash. I love my job. Last week we read from Thoreau, Edward Abbey, Farley Mowat.