catapult magazine

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• Setting the feet on the pathway

  A parent chooses a unique form of education to help her sons develop a sense of "self."

• Failure and hope

  On the challenge of assigning students a grade and the qualities of ?failure.?

• Slaying the monsters

  How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

• Himalayan idyll

  A meditation on the serious business of being a child.

• The other side of the bridge, or ?2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten?

  A high school reunion inspires reflection about change and growing up.

• Watching <i>Hoosiers</i> in the Himalayas

  Where is home?  Sometimes it travels.

• I am a nerd

  On the freedom of claiming an identity that's not cool.

• A graceful childhood

  A mental journey through the school years prompts gratitude for intangible gifts.

• Bombardment

  The emotional and spiritual education of gym class.

• Small town grudge

  Citizens of Farmland, Indiana, past and present: get ready to get over it.

• The Story

  An interview with Dawn Ulmer about her annual story.

• I was born in a small town

  A reflection on the passing away of an autumn tradition.

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• Late night thoughts on the incident behind this issue

  An experience in a high school classroom prompts thoughts about the postmodern decline of shared cultural reference.

• By popular election

  Pondering the humaneness of democratic high school government elections.

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

• The freedom, the pain and the just desserts of nerdiness

  Middle school lessons, for better or worse, become life lessons.

• (Partly) rebelling against rebellion

  Reflections of a pastor's kid on struggling against expectations.

• In[finite]security

  What a kindergartener's fashion sense reveals about the mystery of God.

• Outside looking in

  Remembering Simone Weil and a middle school band of misfits.

• An open letter to literature

  Chronicling an English major's complicated relationship with books.

• Standing alone

  A review of the 1974 young adult novel The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier.

• Recycled abundance

  Remembering the Barter Sale at boarding school in Pakistan and the lessons it's still teaching.

• Growing up is hard to do

  Nostalgia and regret in remembering the qualities of childhood friendships.

• Ten things we imagine at Huss School

  Modest proposals for the future life of 22,000 square feet and four acres.

• Identity theft

  A reflection on how aid can rob a culture of generosity.

• Come now, let us reason together

  A plea for unity among Christians.

• When every day is Saturday

  No more teachers, no more books, no more...peace and quiet? Regular routines? Freedom?

• An apology to the pig farmer’s son

  Looking back on the vulnerability and cruelty of grade school.

• Ten things for Huss School in 2011

  As *cino continues to develop a vision for its historic school property in Three Rivers, Michigan, a list of ways to continue and to grow.