I have students do post-interview reports to the class, and I try to limit them to about ten minutes, but Eddie wanted to tell everything. To this day Eddie goes down once a week and plays chess with Ivan. Genuine solutions tend to solve not just the problem they focus upon but many other problems as well. We chase the bump in the carpet around the room, stomping furiously. Kids are taken out of history and English classes to visit counselors.
Time is taken away from important studies to rehearse test-taking skills.
The Heritage Project encourages people to look up, to gaze toward the horizon where we hope to go, to restore our historic faith in people and in education, and to mobilize our communities around a common purpose-that of passing on to the next generation our understanding of one another and of the world in which we live. A good community is itself a learning expedition, a way of moving forward by discussing problems in the light of all that we've learned so far. Both school and town come nearer to realizing their potential, and therein lie many solutions. Sometimes solutions we weren't even looking for arise. Last year Bigfork passed an operating levy for the school with a margin of fewer than forty votes.