Not much new; we have the last admissions meeting this afternoon, which promises to be fairly brief (since it's transfers, and there aren't many openings, as usual). Lynda pointed out something I had only started to articulate in my head, that admission to an already established, insular class can be a deciding factor in the ability of the student to make it - although, how can we really judge that in advance?
Went with Barb to Middle Fork last night to listen for frogs. It was chilly, which dampened my enthusiasm - I got too cold to really enjoy it, but we did see some beautiful dusk sky, saw a muskrat (or two?) annoying the geese, and heard lots of spring peepers, if not much else.
Remembered something from WWW today that I wanted to note; the other day they were talking about the big spelling bee, and they mentioned that it now requires a multiple-choice vocabulary test to qualify for the final round. I like this very much; I've always felt that the genius kids who don't do anything but memorize lists of words are not benefitting from the experience at all; since they don't have to know what any of them mean, they aren't really gaining anything from being able to spell obscure and bizarre words. I think this should be an integral part of any contest of this type.
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