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Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined, Alma, MI (2026)

06/17/2022

Taylor Academy Update, Thursday, June 16, 2022

In the words of the famous philosopher and poet, Mike Rutherford, the bass player from the band Genesis, who created the band Mike and the Mechanics as a side project, "Every new beginning, comes from some other beginning's end." This line from the song "The Living Years" sums up the problematic situation Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined finds itself in.

As has been the case for four amazing years, Scholar W, Scholar N, and Scholar J have been full time enrolled in either Alma Public Schools or Taylor Academy. There were times when they were enrolled in both schools receiving excellent instruction from some of the best educators found anywhere. Mr. Dad often found himself wearing many different hats including Principal of Taylor Academy, lead instructor, Dean of Mean, er Discipline, Culture Curator, Curriculum Advisor, Food Service Planner, and most importantly Dad. You see Taylor Academy was indeed an academic institution and yet served a different purpose as well; Taylor Academy was a way to chronicle the educational and personal experience of life in the beginning stages of the Covid Pandemic.

Now Taylor Academy finds it's youngest scholar, Scholar A, becoming an APS Panther in the fall. With enrollment at an all time low, zero students, Mr. Dad was able to see the writing on the wall that Taylor Academy would indeed close its doors permanently. His occupation paying a salary of zero dollars with zero benefits would soon be ending. With this reality squarely hitting Mr. Dad in the face like a lemon meringue pie, Mr. Dad, over the course of the past month and a half, began aggressively working with the Michigan Department of Education to transfer his Indiana Teaching License to the great state of Michigan, while simultaneously securing an interview with Alma Public Schools. This interview was followed up with the opportunity to receive a second interview with Alma Public Schools Superintendent and was offered a position for the 2022-2023 school year as a fourth grade teacher. Mr. Dad even received a passing vote at the most recent school board meeting indicating that he was indeed hired. Mr. Dad will transition back to Mr. Taylor, classroom teacher, again after a four year classroom break.

The experiences of Taylor Academy indeed helped all members of this prestigious institution survive during the school shutdown at the beginning of the pandemic and will serve as a great way to look back at a once in a lifetime worldwide event (please, once in my life, PLEASE), Mr. Dad, I mean Mr. Taylor is really looking forward to having a classroom and investing in the lives of many scholars, knowing full well that his most important scholars, W, N, J, and A are being invested into by GREAT teachers as well and he gets to be just Dad again.

In the words of the Arny, the former govenator of California, "I'll be back!" AND it appears that Mr. Taylor is back this August!

06/16/2022

Taylor Academy Update, Thursday, June 16, 2022

An important announcement concerning Taylor Academy Staffing for the 2022-2023 school year will be announced shortly. We are experiencing a bitter/sweet couple of days at Taylor Academy with some important staff transitions. We are not sure if Taylor Academy will be able to remain open, even in an interim basis. Please stay tuned.

And as always, if you would like, please take a look at the adventures of Taylor Academy staff and scholars by visiting our page and scrolling to previous posts. You will get a great look at Taylor Academy during the days of Covid Shutdown. :)

11/24/2020

Taylor Academy Update, Monday, November 23rd, 2020

Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined will be shuttering it's campus for the remainder of the week allowing for deep cleaning and the resumption of face to face learning with the Alma Public School system and St. Mary's Preschool, esteemed partners in our scholars educational pursuits (full ride scholarships so Mr. Dad and our Spiritual Director can retire) whether these bright and capable scholars know this fact yet or not.

Scholars W, N, and J all returned to the magical land of their elementary school. Their excitement to return to their amazing teachers, face covered by a mask, face covered by a mask, was measurable as we left the Taylor Academy campus on time this morning, will His miracles ever stop? Someone give me a Hallelujah! This gave Mr. Dad the opportunity to spend some much needed one on one time with his youngest scholar, Miss Scholar A, who will return to her pursuit of a full ride college scholarship, tomorrow.

While Mr. Dad was working feverishly in his attempt to become a "Domestic Deity," Scholar A was left watching one of the best eudcational programs around, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. She had been dressed in comfortable clothes since riding with her brothers as they were dropped off at their educational dreamland. After about 15 minutes, Mr. Dad heard his angel scholar say, "Dad, I have a surprise for you." Upon walking into the family room, Mr. Dad saw that his daughter had sneaked upstairs and changed into a Christmas outfit and was standing next to the tree, waiting for her Christmas presents. When Mr. Dad kindly and with his most gentle voice informed Scholar A that Christmas wasn't for another month, tears started flowing like the mighty Nile river during the spring rainy season in which the Egyptian God, Hopi, overflowed its banks. The tears continued as Mr. Dad was yelled at and was told, "Fine! I don't want to have Christmas, I am having a bad day!" After a hug and reassurance that Christmas would indeed come in due time, Scholar A was set down to watch more Daniel Tiger, while Mr. Dad changed a load of laundry in his attempt to become a "Domestic Deity."

Scholar A, changed her clothes again, combining two of her loves, Belle from Beauty and the Beast and Santa Claus, meeting Mr. Dad and saying, "Ho, Ho, Ho!" She then worked really hard on a picture that Mr. Dad loves and is terrified of. It shows her talent as a three year old, coloring within the lines, but yet, will indeed give nightmares. While the gesture of giving Mr. Dad this gift is beautiful, it will NOT be framed for fear of it coming alive and haunting Taylor Academy halls.

The remainder of the Taylor Academy Scholars were picked up and returned to Taylor Academy's campus. They were not thrilled to hear that Mr. Dad was increasing their nightly requirements (remember, full ride scholarships) which now requires a session of xtra math, listening to, reading, and taking a comprehension test in Raz Kids, and reading to Mr. Dad in a leveled book for 20 minutes.

The male scholars are learning to make great choices in their free viewing of the motion pictures, starting tonight, Over the Top. This movie is the heart wrenching and inspiring tale of love, loss, father and son, man against the world and overcoming all obstacles in the wild world of arm wrestling. If this movie doesn't move you to tears, one must wonder, do you even have a heart? Mr. Dad is looking forward to seeing his male scholars, wearing baseball caps, and turning those baseball caps backward when they need the extra concentration and strength to continue their quest towards full ride scholarships!

Scholar A was the first to go to sleep with her favorite unicorn, Estelle. Seriously, she named her unicorn, Estelle. How cool is that?

11/21/2020

Taylor Academy Update: Friday, November 20, 2020

Here at the end of the evening, as the scholars of Taylor Academy are finally, FINALLY, finally in their room quiet (who cares about sleeping right now, I just need the quiet yo!), our daily academic communication is being crafted and sent out. Academics got done today. The. END.

In other news, the crazy was let out of the bag. I believe all week we have been building to this moment, where the level of crazy being held in by our four scholars was starting to burst a little and yet, they tried (Bless their little hearts), they tried to keep it together. Today, nope, no try, only failure to keep the CRAZY contained. If crazy was a US state, it would be larger than Alaska, with higher mountains than the Rockies, deeper canyons than the Grand, hotter deserts than the Great Salt Lake, and colder gusts than our blustery winds felt in Minnesota North. Their crazy was HUGE and OVERFLOWING today!

Let's start with the little one, Scholar A. While her brothers were on Zoom calls she was in front of the Television drawing pictures. She was so proud of the "Family" that she was drawing and yet when Mr. Dad studied the picture, there were seven people in the picture. Mr. Dad asked Scholar A, "Why are there seven people in the picture?" Scholar A responded, "You know why," and went back to coloring. Enter the Twilight Zone music. Then about 10 minutes later, Mr. Dad hears her screaming in the basement. Mr. Dad runs to the basement, scared that something horrible has happened, where he meets Scholar A who says with her eyes wide and seriously scared, "I saw a clown! She's so CREEPY!" Mr. Dad didn't remember any clowns in the basement, and asked Scholar A to show him where she saw it. She took him to the laundry room and pointed out a clown that Mr. Dad had never seen before. Twilight Zone music.

After lunchtime, Mr. Dad asked for a couple of moments of quiet, feeling pretty frazzled due to the week of intense life running a school again in the midst of a global pandemic, and three of the four scholars complied with the request to simply go somewhere and be quiet. Switzerland, excuse me, Scholar N decided to enter the Kitchen, where Mr. Dad was trying to enjoy a quiet moment or two cleaning dishes (as an adult, it is interesting what can bring you peace, isn't it?) and start dancing as if he was in a dance competition for a new car. After hearing his name yelled four times by Mr. Dad, Scholar N replied to the question, "What are you doing?" with a honest response, "I'm dancing like a fool, sometimes you just have to dance." This made Scholar W come up to see what all the commotion was, and decided to dance as well; however, he hit his foot on the open Dishwasher and went down as if he ruptured his achilles. Upon inspection for what had to be casitrophic damage to his foot and seeing no evidence of damage, Mr. Dad told Scholar W if he didn't stop crying, he would need to be taken to the ER for a lot of shots and possibly surgery where they would slice open his leg, put many screws into his bones, wrap his leg in gauss, and force him to be around pretty nurses for several weeks. Scholar W quickly stopped crying and walked back to the basement without any sign of injury and Scholar N continued his dancing. So much for a moment of silence.

Scholar J did make Mr. Dad happy when he showed him his newest art project. Scholar J loves to color, and his newest coloring page kick that he is on is not Star Wars, or Disney anything, or Superheros, but he is on a Rocky Balboa kick and is coloring pages of the famed boxer. This is awesome and yet a little bit crazy to be honest. It was around this time that the spiritual director of Taylor Academy mentioned that there seemed to be a leak in the bathroom.

Sure enough, there was a leak behind the water shut off valve to the toliet. The galvanized pipe ni**le (yes that is what it is called) had formed a crack where the threading entered the shut off valve. Mr. Dad ran to True Value in town (maybe more than once) to get a new galvanized ni**le, a new shut off valve, and a couple of other things to make the repair, with the last trip causing this local treasure of a store to stay open past their closing time. After trying to get the galvanized ni**le off the replace with new, Mr. Dad became concerned when the ni**le was twisting, not at the joint it should have, but way, way, way back in the wall. Fearing that a fitting failed in the wall and we would be needing to remove a wall or a ceiling to fix this, Mr. Dad stopped and called a plumber from Adams Plumbing and Heating, using the emergency line. The plumber came quickly and had the same concerns that Mr. Dad had. Upon opening the wall a little, he noticed that someone had made a repair using a sharkbite fitting and this was allowing the pipe to twist. 15 minutes and a future bill to come later, all the parts that Mr. Dad had purchased were used and water was restored. This quick repair, coupled with Scholar A's bedtime arriving allowed Mr. Dad and the three male scholars to continue their weekly tradition of Guy Movie Night. We have caught up on The Mandalorian.

Popcorn and Stranger Things await Mr. Dad right now, but as always on Friday please enjoy the weekend, you have earned it. Remember it is okay to be a little bit crazy, just don't do anything stupid. See the light. Keep 25 cents in your pocket, we want to talk with you on Monday, not about you. Raven Pride is a very special tradition, a tradition where Exceptional is Defined. Peace is gained by knowing the Prince of Peace, and most importantly, love your loved ones, and thank God for the moments you have with them.

11/20/2020

Taylor Academy Update, Thursday, November 19, 2020

Well, we would like to update those who have expressed concern and to verify the rumors that are floating around the internet. Taylor Academy Staff and Scholars have completed their 14 day quarantine after a Taylor Academy scholar was a close contact to an individual who tested positive for Covid -19. No Taylor Academy Staff or Scholar experienced any symptoms, and the Scholar who was exposed did indeed test negative. When the other three scholars found out that the test for their fellow scholar came back negative, they became greatly concerned as in their mind, negative was bad and positive was good. I am glad that they were concerned. In other news, Alma Public Schools will indeed reopen their Elementary Buildings, as well as their Middle School Building starting this coming Monday. Scholars will continue in their Taylor Academy classes on Wednesdays weekly, while restarting face to face instruction for the time being on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday weekly.

In the teacher's lounge (yes, this is the correct use of the apostrophe as their is only one teacher at Taylor Academy, Mr. Dad), a family plant (Christmas Cactus) that has been with Mr. Dad for almost 20 years, bloomed a couple blooms for the first time last year, and is showing itself to bloom in greater abundance this year. This flower is a reminder for Mr. Dad that all of his scholars, well, they will bloom when they are ready to bloom. Scholar W is a far above grade level reader. This has made school much easier for him. Scholar A is showing a tremendous aptitude for reading at her ripe age of three. Scholars N and J, are behind where Scholar W was at their age (most scholars in this country are behind where Scholar W was/is), however the growth that these two scholars have shown in reading since March of last year is much like this plant. They are seemingly blooming all of a sudden, and it is a beautiful thing to behold.

Work was completed with minimal escalations of prior squirmishes, and due to the amount of work needed to be completed, Mr. Dad decided that a business lunch was needed. Scholars dined on the finest food the metropolis of Alma has to offer: the Arche de Golden (McDonalds) and The Bell of Southern Cuisine (Taco Bell). Work continued without incident until the day was completed. During the lunch hour, as the scholars were completing their business lunches (eating and working at once), Mr. Dad started making the world's easiest, yet best soup evah! This Chicken Chilli recipe was given to the Taylor Academy cofounder, our Spiritual Director, the Rev. Erin Moss Taylor, from the angelic and often missed, Gail Collins. It is easy and it is so good.

Scholar W decided, after dinner, that he needed to use the restroom. While the administration of Taylor Academy was well aware that Scholar W had no need for the lavatory, he was allowed to go to them anyways. Upon coming out, he challenged Mr. Dad to hand to hand battle, making some weird faces that he said was his "Rock" eyebrow. Mr. Dad spoke the famous smack talk line from Paulie to Rocky Balboa in the beginning of Rocky III, "I don't sweat you" to which Scholar W started laughing at telling us it was toilet paper. We reminded him that we were in the middle of a pandemic and toilet paper may become the new currency of the United States of America. Okay, we didn't say that, we simply laughed as well and told him he needed to work on his signature look, his Will face. We maybe caught Scholar W looking in the mirror working on his new signature look. Can't make this stuff up.

Tomorrow is Friday, our last day of this week. We look forward to finishing the week strong.

11/19/2020

Taylor Academy Update, Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined would indeed make a great reality series for some network. Today would have been what network executives call "a very special episode of Taylor Academy." By very special, we mean today was "This is the true story of six family members...picked to live in a house during a worldwide pandemic...have virtual school together, and have their lives taped...to find out what happens...when people stop being polite...and start being real...The Real World: Taylor Academy."

We were "real" from breakfast till WWIII erupted right before lunch. It all started yesterday when scholars would say something, a different scholar would repeat what was said in a mocking voice, and then faces, mean mugs, whatever you want to call it would be exchanged. Upon completion of the academic day yesterday, administration believed that this pettiness, was well, over. We were misguided and naive in our assumptions. From breakfast, when Scholar J was caught kicking Scholar W, and Scholar W was caught mocking Scholar J. Scholar W was rocking the pencil drums like Keith Moon, while Scholars J and N were in Zoom calls, and then the spark that ignited it all...Scholar A entered the picture. She, while Mr. Dad was visiting the deep freeze in the basement, decided that it would be a good idea to grab a label from Scholar J. Scholar J, much like any nation would do when their property was attacked by an outside foe, retaliated with diplomatic verbal threats, which caused Scholar A to scream and run away from the mess that she indeed started. Scholar W, decided to stand up for his favorite and cutest ally, and physically escalate this conflict, all the while Scholar N was pulling his best Switzerland and remaining neutral in all issues of conflict. This physical intimidation by Scholar W was not received well from Scholar J and so Scholar J retaliated much like a world power would respond to an aggressive fellow world power. This Cold War heated up really quickly. When Mr. Dad, in less than 2 minutes, returned from gathering food for lunch, laid down the law with what could only be described as a campaign of shock and awe. It was not a great 10 minutes.

In other news, work was completed, and while work was completed, Scholar A when not starting WWIII was building again. Her castles/towers/kingdoms/forests were built numerous different times and with varying levels of difficulty and complexity. She really is enjoying the challenge of engineering marvels that rival the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, and the Tridge (the world's largest three span, pedestrian bridge over water).

We are hopeful that Mr. Dad's demonstration of shock and awe will continue to hold the peace for at least one more day. Dear Lord Jesus, one peaceful day! Oh, and before we receive any communication, we do know that our scholars are out of uniform. The reality is that every day is pajama day at Taylor Academy.

11/18/2020

Taylor Academy Update, November 17, 2020

We would like to take this moment and thank all of the stakeholders for their support in the reopening and reimagining of Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined. The reality is that this academic year is truly different then last; this year the academic progress is being led more by the educators of Alma Public Schools with Mr. Dad supplementing here and there versus last year where the educational split was closer to 50/50. This is in no small part due to excellent APS teachers learning how to educate virtually in a pandemic in real time this past spring AND being able to teach virtually this whole year so far while having face to face learning as well. It seems that these teachers have been teaching double time since the end of August, and now they are able to, for the time being, focus on virtual learning (and they are doing some amazing work).

Taylor Academy, late yesterday evening, received it's latest shipment from Walmart and Amazon, completing the tech upgrade needed for the educational success of virtual learning for scholars and the mental and to be honest, physical and mental health of Mr. Dad. Thanks to Walmart Black Friday deals that have already started, Scholars N and J were upgraded from jankity old cpus, that should be taken behind the barn and shot (not that we have a barn), and replaced with two door buster, minimal but greatly upgraded PCs. This in combination with the CPU on loan from Alma Public Schools and DJ style Sony Headphone (Epic Deals on Amazon) allows the Taylor Academy scholars to complete work, zoom calls, and keep quiet, while Mr.Dad deals with the coordination of schedules between three scholars, himself, Scholar A, and our Spiritual Director. At one point today, five of the six people physically at Taylor Academy were on Zoom calls; thank goodness for good WiFi.

Mr. Dad, at various times today, looked outside and saw white things floating through the air. It took him a long time to determine that this was indeed precipitation from the sky, in the form of snow, and not a real world representation of the upside down world of Stranger Things. You see, Mr. Dad had numerous times taken a double check on Scholar A. At one point she was hanging on the door of a cabinet, while three scholars were tied up with Zoom instruction, saying in a sinister voice that is equally scary as it is funny, "I want the candy!" Stranger Things indeed. Then, after picking out her outfit today, she decided that she wanted to build. Normally this would be making two dimensional designs, that are cute but still, boring. She yelled during afternoon zoom meetings, "Dad, I built a tower, come look." After minutes passed, and the pleading did not cease, Mr. Dad pulled himself from shopping for groceries online through the Meijer website for pick up at the store (life changing) and walked out to see a 3-d structure from our 3 year-old scholar. Stranger Things. Then, Mr. Dad noticed that on her arm was the roman numeral 12...just kidding.

The funniest moment of the day, was when Scholar J was reading to Mr Dad as the last part of his academic endeavors for the day. Scholar J was reading a book covering parts of the epic tale Star Wars, focusing on Millennium Falcon and when it became damaged. As he was sounding out the word damaged, he paused after the m, realized that he said a word that is against Taylor Academy student conduct, and stared at Mr Dad. Then when Mr Dad started to laugh, Scholar J did as well.

Dinner was a good one tonight, the scholars had bratwusts, caesar salad, and tater tots, while our spiritual director and Mr. Dad had blackened asparagus and pan fried butterflied chicken breasts. After a long, good day of school, the boys of Taylor Academy, including Mr. Dad, had a midweek movie night, watching one episode of the Mandalorian (episode two of season two). What a great cap to a good day. Sleep well my friends, tomorrow is HUMP DAY and then we are working for the weekend.

11/17/2020

Late Night Taylor Academy Update: November 16, 2020

"The longest days still only have 24 hours; it's just that so much more happens in the minutes of those hours." D. James Taylor

This quote, just made up in the past couple of seconds by the inspirational, charismatic, and quirky educator, D. James Taylor sums up the experience of Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined learners, staff, and stakeholders today. While it is true, that the day itself had the same amount of time in it that every other day has had and the technology issues that plagued (we maybe shouldn't use plague in the year 2020) Taylor Academy last week did not materialize today, somehow there was just so much more that happened in the hours today then the other days.

Scholars are finding their groove so to speak in the balance of using technology for class instruction from their dedicated Alma Public School teachers, both through live Zoom lessons and recorded lessons to watch at their own pace. They are working well when being supervised by Mr. Dad and Mr. Dad is finding moments to assist the amazing teachers of his scholars by reinforcing the instruction received with pointers and tips to help scholars attain the knowledge that is being delivered. Assessments are being completed and work is being done. School is happening. Yea. Yippee. Sweet Mary and Joseph.

Scholar W is feverishly working toward opening his own Detective Agency. He feels that using his supreme crime solving ability, his devilish good looks, and his ridiculous charm (his words not Mr. Dads), he is a natural in the needed field of criminology. He is working hard on solving cases placed before him and is learning from some of the greatest pre-teen and teen crime solvers in the history of literature, Encyclopedia Brown and The Hardy Boys. Today, Detective Will was given the case of "The Runaway Mouse." You see, Mr. Dad's computer mouse was on his desk and then not three minutes later, it disappeared. Mr. Dad hired Scholar W for the case. Through a series of questions and logical deductions, and picking up his, Scholar W's own folders that buried the mouse, Scholar W solved the case. Mr. Dad, true to his word, paid Scholar W a whole dollar, which, while they had their backs turned, strangely ripped in half. Tomorrow, Detective Will will be handed the case of the "Washington Van Gogh my Money!".

Scholar N was hard at work brainstorming his latest writing masterpiece, answering the question, "In what ways do you help?" He and Scholar J had many of the same answers like, rake the leaves, pick up the house (they were less than truthful on this statement), play with their sister, and several other good brainstorms. All of a sudden, Scholar N, smiled big, started laughing and said, "Yep, that's how I help." When Mr. Dad inquired how he helped, Scholar N said, and I quote, "I helped the family cause 'THIS GUY' (thumbs pointing to himself) was born, oh yeah!" Well, he's not wrong.

About this same time, Scholar A, who is the leader of the well known central Michigan gang, Fists of Thunder, realized that she had not been paid much attention. She remidied this quickly as she found her magnet puzzle, and started creating her "masterpiece." She started yelling louder and louder about her beautiful masterpiece, during zoom calls happening in the next room. When Mr Dad walked over, and saw it, Scholar A called it "the beautiful flower." Not bad my friend.

Lunch was a school classic, baked French fries (can they be called fries if they are not fried?), baked fish sticks, and canned fruit, with chocolate milk. Scholar A was not going to eat this meal, so she opted for baked French fries, canned fruit, tortilla, and strawberry milk, because as all the cool kids say, she is extra. When Mr. Dad walked back into the room to serve all scholars their milk, Scholar A had gone all Silence of the Lamb with her tortilla, crossing her eyes and telling whomever she was looking at, "I can see both of you," is a truly terrifying voice. I do believe I will have a hard time sleeping tonight.

The tech budget has been spent for the year, and tomorrow, thanks in large part to Amazon and Walmart, new, improved tech options will be unvailed for all scholars. They have to charge tonight. Hallelujah, holy cow, where's the tylenol?

11/14/2020

Taylor Academy Update, November 13th, 2020

The reality of the situation is, if you can remember, the last Friday the 13th way back in March, was the last "normal" Friday in the world of education. You see this was the day, in the last academic year, that Covid-19 forced schools across the nation to shutter their doors and gave birth to the Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined. The memory of this day, Friday the 13th is not lost on educators anywhere, and it seems prophetic to look back in order to see forward. Taylor Academy: Exceptional Defined is focused on remaining open through November 20th as currently scheduled. However, if we are being honest with ourselves, we are putting into place plans to remain open indefinitely as cases of Covid-19 in Michigan are spiking, today hitting just under 8,500.

Scholars W, N, and J settled into a great day of academic exploration at Taylor Academy - powered by Alma Public Schools. They had Zoom meetings and have learned to maneuver and quite frankly, dominate the use of virtual education with traditional pencil and paper sprinkled in much like a Michellem Chef has learned to dominate whatever items are placed before him/her in the television show "Chopped." Scholars worked hard today, dominating assessments, turning in work virtually, and even having assignments hung on the outside door for their teacher to pick up, delivering new paper assignments to mix with the virtual assignments, ensuring a wonderful smogesboard of learning will contiue next week.

Scholar W is determined to start his own business, the Scholar W Detective Agency. To that end, Mr. Dad is mandating that Scholar W reads four Encyclopedia Brown Books, followed by five Hardy Boys books before capital will be invested into the Scholar W Detective Agency. This has proven such a motivation for Scholar W that he offered to read a chapter of Encyclopedia Brown to his brothers at no charge, a deep discount from his normal price of "you can't afford me." Scholar N is deep into his choice reading of Dinosaur Books, reading a total of 50 pages in the past two days. He just read about the loss of dinosaur life and asked why God would allow the dinosaurs to die at the hands of disasters caused by asteroids? At Taylor Academy, we focus on the big issues of Theodicy and the intersections of faith and God, divinity and humanity, chaos and calm. Mr. Dad did not answer this question and it was okay to live in the tension. Scholar N followed this question up with, "If you think it is weird living now with Covid around, imagine looking out for a T-Rex while going on a family walk!" Scholar J read his second book in his Star Wars series, dominating another 25 pages after a full day of learning.

Scholar A is the special one. Her view on life is a little different then the rest of us. She decided that today was a beach day and while Mr. Dad and our Spiritual Director were distracted, proceeded to quickly change into swimwear, get out the special play sand and "Go to the beach!" Life is always better at the beach.

Tonight, now that Scholar A is going to bed, the gentlemen of Taylor Academy will continue a tradition that has been done almost every Friday night for the past three and a half years, Guy Movie Night. It is time to visit a Galaxy far-far away and start season two of The Mandalorian. We are excited.

As always, enjoy the weekend, you have earned it. Remember it is okay to be a little bit crazy, just don't do anything stupid. See the light. Keep 25 cents in your pocket, we want to talk with you on Monday, not about you. Raven Pride is a very special tradition, a tradition where Exceptional is Defined. Peace is gained by knowing the Prince of Peace, and most importantly, love your loved ones, and thank God for the moments you have with them.

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