My favorite thing about being married to Noah is that all of my dreams seem… so very attainable. We talk a fair bit about what will happen after the house is paid off, after the WWOOF year, after Noah feels he will no longer be likely to be a full time professional coder. We won’t be this kind of rich forever. We will be a different kind of rich. What will we do with it?
We have been talking for a while now–years–about wanting to open a school. At this point our language is solidifying around wanting to start the year that would be Calli’s freshman year of high school. This wouldn’t be the right kind of school for Shanna, anyway.
We would like to run a boarding school for nerds. The curriculum will not look a lot like most schools. Kind of a cross between a free democratic school and a vo-tech program. How do you teach entrepreneurship? Luckily we are getting to know the people who are important in those worlds. We are learning what people need to know.
How do you teach responsibility? How do you teach compassion? How do you teach teenagers to believe that their agency actually matters?
I really like being married to Noah. I feel like I could not have a better partner. I feel so very lucky.
How can you know today what kind of school will be right for Shanna when she’s a high schooler?
Oh I don’t think I have any idea what school will be right. I have a pretty good idea that what Noah wants to teach isn’t what she wants to learn. And if she for some reason did incline in that direction it’s not like it would be a hardship for her to be the test dummy (har har) for the curriculum.
I came with the same question 🙂 to see if you had answered it already. Though the other half of my question was about Calli’s high school plan.
I don’t actually have a plan for either kid. I am waiting to see what they want to do. 🙂 I’m adamant about home schooling up to middle school. Around that point they get to pick what they do with their time.