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May 20, 2026 17:20 · 8:35 · English · Whisper Turbo · 2 Kaikōrero
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Yeah,
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I basically want a download of middle
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school U or Spartan U.
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Yep. Thank you.
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And so if you can share with me just like
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how it went this past year.
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Everything.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Go ahead.
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All right.
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Spartan U was something that I thought of as you started reading articles
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about anxiety and stress with new middle school students,
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especially sixth graders.
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The last thing you want them to do on their first day of school or first couple of days of their school is
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go from the car saying bye to mom and dad and right into a class.
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Yeah.
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Especially when they don't know how to edit a document,
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the address on an envelope or let alone like where classes are.
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So it's a mini boot camp that.
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helps out with orientation,
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almost an extension of orientation,
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but it's revolved around actual programming.
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So we have a technology piece,
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we have a leadership piece,
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we have a scavenger on a piece,
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we keep fun things going.
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Brian introduces the house games,
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we do advisory things.
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It's two days long,
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it's a way for them to get to know the school and each other.
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So the past couple years they've come in on a Thursday,
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so Thursday and Friday have been Spartan U,
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and that gives them then the weekend to feel good about everything.
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And then they start school on the following Monday, which is like a full week of school.
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And so we're always looking to adapt,
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edit, change,
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but it's definitely going to continue this year,
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and it's for all of grade 6.
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This year it might include grade 7,
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depends on logistics.
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Okay, but this past year was just grade 6.
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It was grade 6.
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The past two years it was just grade 6.
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Tell me a little bit about the house system and what that looked like this past year.
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So Brian Donovan,
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I hired him.
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He had experience with the house system,
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which is Harry Potter meets colorware.
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That's what I call it.
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The Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta,
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Georgia is famous for having these Harry Potter teams.
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When you're new to the school,
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you're then put into a house,
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and they do fun competitions every day,
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every week.
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That's your house.
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That's who you stay with,
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almost like your team.
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Yellow, red,
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blue, green, et cetera.
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We revolved it around three languages,
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Greek,
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French, and Spanish.
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Greek because they learn it in grade 6 as far as ancient civilizations.
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Then we teach French and Spanish here as our languages.
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So the kids in grade 6 and 7 are put into a house automatically
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at the beginning of the year based on their advisories.
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And then in grade 7,
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if they're new, they're sorted into an advisory.
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It's a two -year competition phase.
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We do Favre,
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Calasini,
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and Valentia.
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Those are the three teams.
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And they have weekly meetings.
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They do rotational games.
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They collect points,
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everything from student of the month,
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clean locker checks,
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to just being good citizens around our campus.
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And then they do fun competitions.
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They toothpick building,
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toilet paper wrapping around as a mummy.
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We can do those types of things.
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You get points every week.
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And then at the end of the year,
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you get a big trophy,
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the Excelsior trophy that you'll see in our hallway.
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Okay, cool.
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A lot of fun.
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Who holds the trophy right now?
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Valentia has won two years in a row.
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We're obviously in the infant stage,
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but it's something the kids love to do.
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They get their shirts.
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They can wear their shirts on their house days.
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This year it was day six.
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Who knows where it will be next year?
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But it's just another way to bring in spirit and camaraderie,
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and they love it.
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Oh, love.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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Okay,
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Minterum.
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So how did that manifest itself this past year?
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A couple years ago,
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upper school started their winterum.
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always said like the middle school should have a piece but not school is doing because you
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should look forward to doing something so upper school has a whole week i said we should at least have a section
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of what they're doing but be able to create something that's ours um so
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this year grades six seven and eight did a two -day fun classes not
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academic classes everything from how do you make a starbucks coffee to 3d
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printing to
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traveling the world and pretend you're a tourist.
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Two days where you're back,
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you're obviously with each other,
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but you have no homework,
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no classroom.
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It's just about learning things that maybe are important to you.
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So you learn how to make 3D projects.
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You learn, obviously,
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how to be a tourist and questions to ask.
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Coach Dwyer and I did a great leadership class,
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and it was just a fun way to slowly ease your way into semester
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two as opposed to having 17 days off for winter break and saying,
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all right, right back into class.
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So it just eases the transition from a long break into semester two.
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And especially when you're 11,
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12, 13, 14.
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So it was just a non -traditional class.
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Non -traditional class.
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We didn't go anywhere.
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Next year,
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we might be looking at some community service projects,
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something to do here.
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But the upper school,
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as far as the transportation going off campus,
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we want to leave that to them.
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That should be like a privilege for them.
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Sure.
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And so for us, it's doing fun things here.
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Okay.
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Sweet.
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And then the multicultural fair.
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Tell me about like...
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All of that.
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Grade 7 teaches human geography first semester and civic second
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semester.
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And so being able to do human geography is a study of where it
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came from and where it came from.
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So we thought it would be great in a lot of schools to do this as far as doing a multicultural fair where you
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will do a project based on your roots,
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where your family came from.
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You'll have a trifold or some type of project or presentation.
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And then we will obviously have that day,
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like a big two or three hour festival,
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big part.
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So we brought in a group from Mandarin,
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a Scottish -Irish dance group.
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We had a salsa group here on campus,
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Cinderella Calderon's Spanish class came and did salsa dancing.
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The kids had presentations in the hallway about their roots and where they were from.
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And then we had a lot of families that brought in a lot of food.
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And so you had food,
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you had dance,
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and then you had obviously projects.
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And so this year was just grade 7.
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And then next year we want to go big.
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We want to go grade 6,
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7, 8.
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Hopefully we can go very big with them too.
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Sweet.
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But it was a lot of fun.
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Who spearheaded that?
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Molly Shepard,
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Brian Dunn, and myself.
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So the history department here,
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and then myself, just helping out with coordination.
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And then we just had the moving up ceremony.
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Do you have the
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departmental awards that you can share with me?
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I think that's the biggest part of the spread.
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Yeah,
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and you have meaningful things,
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and so the Caden Ingram Spartan Award is very big.
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His father comes and presents the award with Coach Rotterford,
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so that's meaningful.
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And it's a one -time scholarship that they get every single year.
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It's like $700.
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It helps out.
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We had a 7th grader for the first time say something to the 8th graders.
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So a 7th grader saying a boozer say something.
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And then we did a ringing of the bells.
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So you'll see in the trophy case outside we have these ringing of the bells at the beginning of the year.
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The kids that started the year,
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we passed around the bells to all the eighth graders to ring in the new year.
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So they all rang it.
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Then at the end of the year,
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the faculty in eighth grade chose three to ring us out.
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Nice.
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Before they did the recession.
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Okay, who were the three?
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Lex Larson,
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Lon Harvey,
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and Charlie Van Horn.
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That's fun.
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So
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Sam Boozer gave like a speech?
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Saying on behalf of student council,
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eighth grade,
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thank you for everything that you've done this year.
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We hope that obviously we can fill the very big shoes that you're leaving us.
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Wonderful leaders and mentors to us.
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Oh,
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I love that.
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Fantastic.
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Okay, great.
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Yeah,
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this gives me plenty to go on.
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And, yeah,
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if you have that,
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like, list of awards.
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I saw Jenny took a lot
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of really good pictures.
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Okay.
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From here
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to here.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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Yeah, this is exactly great.
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The
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reason why you see a lot of twos is that if I said to a teacher,
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if there was a close second,
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they both get an award.
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When you're juniors and seniors,
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it might be a difference.
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Well,
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and even them,
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sometimes if it's close.
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I don't know if it's close.
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Don't think twice.
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Give it to both.
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I'd give it to three if it was that close.
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This is the time the middle school spoiled.
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Let them feel it.
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They're 13 or 14.
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Awesome.
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I'm in with Kiara this morning.
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Okay.

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The transcript describes Spartan U, a program designed to help new middle school students adjust to school life. It includes details on the program's structure, including two days of orientation, a weekend to prepare for the start of school, and a focus on programming and leadership. The house system, which involves teams based on language skills, is also discussed, with weekly meetings and competitions to encourage good behavior and citizenship.
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