Boundless School Blog

To Our Weird Parents:It's a stat holiday today, and its raining out my window, so please forgive the fact that I am biding my time with the following musings.I will use W.E.I.R.D. as an acronym for Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic."Rich", being in...

Dear Boundless Families:Everyone arrived safely today. FYI, the weather today was a rare late June Nor-easter - almost unheard of. But the weather hastened the departure, and this was a blessing. As one teacher put it, labouring to put a positive spin on dismal...

I made a casual email typo this morning, slipping an F in front of the word unfettered. And I thought, hmmm, this could be milked to describe Boundless. It could mean fun-fettered, as in, we are drenched in mirth. Too cheeky I suppose. We are not a merry-go-round....

My rehab from a painful Christmas knee replacement has left me reflecting about perseverance. Echoes of my dad’s nagging nuggets of wisdom dance in my head. When he would labour on about “persistence and determination”, I tuned him right out. I knew everything as a...

Dear Boundless Families:I have had the joy of living in BLIS the past week, and have a flood of observations to share: One student is struggling socially. It was suggested to the group that this young man needs some “older siblings” to keep an eye out on him...

I stole away from the city yesterday, arriving at Boundless to find a bunch of teenagers donning make-up and dressing in drag to celebrate the end of their weekly stint at math and English. After 10 days, these kids have settled and are letting their freak flags...

Dear Boundless Families:To contradict my last update where I claimed the river has a profound impact on students, may I suggest that Boundless is not about the river at all.I had a phone chat today with a student’s dad. Mystified as to why his daughter has the...

No one is on property right now, except for me and the idle emergency crew. The phone does not ring. So I have nothing for you, save for some self indulgent Sunday evening ramblings. All 48 kids are being transformed into river snobs, who will forever look down...

Dear Boundless Families: Sure enough, I hear a pitter patter outside my office window. A chilly rain has begun, slated to continue on and off for 3 more days. This should prove interesting.  We wonder if the gods may be striking us down for our hubris. Looking...

Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely today.  It's chilly up here, but this is balanced with warm water and an almost total absence of bugs - a first for this summer. I enjoyed being at the Toronto pick up this morning. I sensed right then and there that...