Boundless School Blog
Update #3 | Session 2 – Oh How Our Students Suffer
Dear Boundless Families: I made up a scale a way back that combines water and air temperature to determine suitability for outdoor water-based activities. A combined 40 degrees is a cutoff. Anything below, it's chilly and even a risk for mild hypothermia if you...
Update # 2 | Session 2 – Those Darn Neuroplastic Plastic Brains
Dear Boundless Families: I confess to dragging my butt when it comes to professional duties today. Its almost impossible to be productive when the Eastern Ontario Canadian Shield, in this 600-acre boreal forest running alongside a 24-degree river, is abloom and one...
2-Credit Special Update – “Something Happening Here, Not Exactly Clear”
Dear 2-Credit Families: "There is something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear" Name the band and the song, be the first to respond, and you win a boundless baseball hat. NO GOOGLING, WE ARE WATCHING. We'll only notify the winner, and send the treasured...
Update # 1 | Session 2 – No Meatheads Here
Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. I heard the traffic Gods were unkind, so special thanks for the diligence. The kids arrived to a kind of summer afternoon that reminds you of when you were a kid, biking to the store on crunchy gravel, buying...
Final Update | Session 1 – Billions of Years of Exquisite Evolution
Dear Boundless Families: As I neared the Dumoine region territory on Saturday to meet up with the OE gang, the north wind started blowing. This cleared the humidity, and humility, of this motley crew. In what is normally a brutal 15km stretch of flatwater,...
Update # 3 | Session 1 – Halcyon Days of Tom Sawyer
Dear Boundless Families: Like a house guest you yearn hang out with the first few days, and soon transforms into the-thing-that wouldn't-leave, summer arrived at Boundless. It's hot. The road dust swirls at the slightest provocation. The gravel crunches...
Update # 2 | Session 1 – Plastic-Free Shoeless Utopia
Dear Boundless Families: I am fascinated by group dynamics, and about how your kids are responding to valley-based education. Everything here is like an educational experiment. First timers are floored by the way we weave nature into classical learning, and about...
Update # 1 | Session 1 – Prodigious Pests and Progeny
Dear Boundless Families: Everyone arrived safely. Thanks for a speedy getaway this morning. Summer actually arrived in the Madawaska Valley today. It has rained so much this spring that I personally was a pencil-length away from enjoying my very own indoor swimming...
A driving lesson gone wrong pushed me to divorce my teenage daughter
One miserable December afternoon, on a Toronto side street melancholy with mud puddles, I divorced my daughter. During a heated driving lesson, I surrendered my beloved to an uncaring world, and it broke my heart. The cruel imperative to let go was modelled by my...
Session #4, Final Update – Joyous and Tear Jerking Embraces
Dear Boundless Families: The evenings have this chill about them now. It's transition time in weather and in all things post Labour day. Butterfly time for most families. But your kids couldn't care less in this moment. The two OE classes have been whitewater...