Wonder: Parts Three–Six

The main thing I have is this thing called man-di-bu-lo-facial dys-os-tosis — which took me forever to learn how to pronounce, by the way. But I also have this other syndrome thing that I can’t even pronounce.

Then I spray painted the whole thing white with the paint I had gotten for the Alabaster Sphinx I was making for the Egyptian Museum project.

It’s not enough that we have to sit through class after class and try to stay awake while they fill our heads with all this stuff we will probably never need to know, like how to figure out the surface area of a cube or what the difference is between kinetic and potential energy. I’m like, who cares? I’ve never, ever heard my parents say the word “kinetic” in my entire life!

It’s not enough that we have to sit through class after class and try to stay awake while they fill our heads with all this stuff we will probably never need to know, like how to figure out the surface area of a cube or what the difference is between kinetic and potential energy.

Although I don’t know the details, I have an inkling about what may have sparked the confrontation with Julian.

Although I don’t know the details, I have an inkling about what may have sparked the confrontation with Julian.

Although I think hitting a child would be valid grounds for expulsion in other schools, I agree such extreme measures aren’t warranted here.

In retrospect, and having now seen the child in question at various school functions and in the class pictures, I think it may have been too much to ask of our children to be able to process all that.

At the very least, I am somewhat troubled that this child was not held to the same stringent application standards (i.e. interview) that the rest of the incoming middle-school students were.

In terms of the application process, the admissions director and I both felt it within our right to hold the interview off-site at August’s home for reasons that are obvious. We felt that this slight break in protocol was warranted but in no way prejudicial — in one way or another — to the application review.

We felt that this slight break in protocol was warranted but in no way prejudicial — in one way or another — to the application review.

Please know we have asked Jack if he felt any undue pressure about any of this, and the answer was a resolute “no.”

mr. davenport, the drama teacher, is already manic about the whole thing. will drive us crazy by the time it’s over, no doubt.

some babies that weren’t even born before have begun talking regular sentences already; and a number of people who thought they were right young and spry have noticed that they can’t bound up a flight of stairs like they used to, without their heart fluttering a little.

You’re moody and taciturn and secretive.