The Guest List
I am not working very hard on it.
Against which:
Fourteen campuses now report a conversion rate to a board in public, annually, starting in October, because a woman spoke for two minutes and fifty-one seconds and then a superintendent spent eleven weeks checking.
Ninety-four scholarships.
A hundred and forty-one requests we know nothing about.
And a sixteen-year-old who asked her brother, in a hallway, in October, whether he was going to do something dumb — who is the only person in this family who has ever asked a question at the right moment, and who learned it from watching all of us not.
Part Forty-Four: Four Things