I believe there are quite a few avid readers in the incoming middle school group.
This makes me excited. It also makes me miss the high school students of yore. It is so much fun to discuss all the cool business that takes place in the literature that we get to study at our amazing little school.
Although I did see an article in the L.A. Times about an online high school through Stanford that sounded like it would be so ideal for those students who are so advanced that hanging out with more average readers in a classroom can be stultifying. I can think of one or two kids who might've benefited from that kind of set-up.
You can argue that home-schooled or online-schooled students would miss the social experience of being in a physical school with classes and other kids and teachers, but I really doubt the wonderfulness of that experience many times. Maybe we should all just hook up at home and never venture out into the scary world... I have some relatives who would probably enjoy that.
I'm reading The Voyage by Philip Caputo. I hope it's good--it hasn't grabbed me yet.
The view of the backyard from my mom's house
That light fixture is now gone, sadly.
2 comments:
i just finished reading the summer book for 11th/12th graders: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. oh it is so beautiful! and short - you can read it this summer, there's time for it!
i would have done an online high school and then i would have been even more hermit-like and agoraphobic than i already am.
i'm glad you've read housekeeping. i read it back in 80s and forgot how beautifully written it is.
when are you going to oregon? are you going to the shakespeare festival?
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