Saturday, June 30, 2012

Middle School Boys in a Pack

National news this month includes the strange story of an online video showing a pack of middle school boys bullying an elderly bus monitor. The bus monitor maintained that individually these were nice boys. She was probably telling the truth, but packed together these boys turned into something very toxic.

Nine Ways the Best Colleges Resemble Hogwarts

Despite the very silly-sounding name, J.K. Rowling’s Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry pulls at the heart-strings of Western culture and perhaps even taps into a deep primal longing. While Hermes High School will always hold a special place in Philip’s heart, my hope is that his undergraduate experience will prove to be the best part of his late adolescence. In short, I not only want him to earn an education that will launch him into a successful adult professional life, I also want him to spend four years at a place that resembles Rowling’s Hogwarts.