Campus Happenings
I knew it would come to this, that the domain and terrain of the new territory called a blog would require my courage and first step. I would like to feel I am, however, stepping here out of, not into, some of the good things here on campus in this first step.
We had a group of trained young performers and counselors come to our school to discuss the fullest range of diversity challenges. For our students, straining so energetically to be accepted as on a par with all the adults in the world, there was in fact a need for provoking their greater imagination on some issues. We felt with increased imagination and the stimulus of facing hard ideas in discussions that greater generosity would result. The group of visitors was canny and stimulated humor in order to open the discussions as the morning progressed.
The students' sometime veneer of having arrived at a certain maturity was seasoned Wednesday by a greater healthy uneasiness and sensitivity on such topics as cultural bias, Chinese versus Korean, Asian versus Western/American, athlete and 'nerd,' black and white, religious and non-religious, 'gay' and 'straight,' as well as generalities surrounding what is deemed successful or popular.
Our greatest goal beyond skills and mastery of material at our School is to have each student alert and ready for an active role in the world, able to discern what is more and less important, able to think beyond the cliche, and act with wisdom and generosity, confident that he and she is able to find a way to do more and to become more comfortable each day in being.