great speaker thoughtful question

our entire school, middle and upper, and the entire faculty comes together once a week for a meeting in the old fashioned assembly hall in my school. most people think these meetings are kind of a drag and often they are. but, having come from schools where we were never able to come together physically in any kind of organized way, i always get almost emotional when we do this. there's something powerful about literally laying eyes on the whole community.

we often have very interesting speakers come to these meetings because i work with interesting people who know lots of other interesting people. today an economics professor from m.i.t. to talk to us about the current financial crisis. i was worried it would be way over the 6th graders heads which probably most of it was. the speaker was really dynamic and had sneaky ways of explaining things so the kids could understand.

but during the q&a time one 6th grader stood up (in front of all 450 people mind you) and asked, "if all these people are going to lose their homes, where will they live? will they live on the streets? will they be homeless?" so so sweet and thoughtful.