Waiting To Blow Up

The talk around school is that we might just be approaching our tipping point. Why is this? The film I told you about, "Waiting for Superman," just won an Audience Award at Sundance. It was also picked up for distribution by Paramount before the festival even started. I asked someone the other day how our school ended up in the movie (it features an 8th grader as she weighs her options for a high school and follows her through the lottery and decision process). It turns out that the filmmakers had a bunch of urban schools of note, but were looking for a different school to add to the mix. They went to the California Charter Schools Association and asked them what schools they should check out. I guess we were one of the schools suggested. So now, I think I'm working at a school that might just blow up (in the slang way) in the next few years. Bold statement, I know, but quite possible.

So now, as I ponder all of this I am trying to decide which coast I want to live on. And I think, "Is working at one of the top schools in the country the thing that should guide my life?" "If I worked at Google in the beginning years, would I have left to move back home?" I might be pushing that Silicon Valley analogy, but it's a useful thought experiment for me. Those Google people work crazy hours too (why else would they need 24-hour dining rooms and laundromats?). I need to think about this but I have only about 2 months to figure it out (and need to contact new schools soon if that's where I'm leaning). There is a tarot card reader right around the corner from my house. Maybe, if I get desperate, I'll have to stop on over there because I have no idea what I'm supposed to do.