Attendance is silly.
Grades are silly.
Curricula is silly.
If you have to make a policy about it you’ve lost.
If you are troubled, rather than amused, by the messiness of kids and students, you are lost.
If the chronological future of those in your charge comes at the expense of your school’s neighbors, we’ve all lost.
A school should be a workshop, not an assembly line.
A school should be a hive, not a monastery
A school should be a village, not a bubble.
Life has always been a wager and we need school to offer the lessons, knowings, and doings which increase the odds in our favor.
But the wager now—on a tiny, sizzling planet—is not what you alone will make of your future but, rather, how we together will make it to any future.
In their ideal, school 1.0 was a tower of wisdom, school 2.0 an engine of class mobility.
School 3.0?
The reason your grandchildren will live and work cool—cool—and alongside the grandchildren of your enemy.