You know, I don't think I'd work this hard or this intensely if I thought I'd stay here for a few years. I think the balance would be tipped more to the side of being social than accomplishing things that may have more personal than external meaning.
As it is, I'm giving exercises to my 10th and 12th graders to resolve on their own, and probably exercises to the 11th graders to go research. Maybe all this will pay off some day for them, but it's hard to say. Will it motivate them to step out of a bankrupt system? To try and understand, not just memorize?
Peace
John
