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This fall I've been working at the local Montessori school with a group of super-bomb middle schoolers, teaching a few electives: jam-making, folk music, herb gardening, and... contact juggling.

Every monday morning, for an hour and a half, I meet with seven kids for what is essentially their "gym class" - but instead of running laps, we have eight stage balls, a carpeted room and whatever beats match what we're doing that day.

I've been wanting to write a post about this since the start of the school year, but I was up to my eyeballs in a Masters thesis (awful) until last Monday. So now that I'm getting caught up on Life Outside Of APA Format, here I am being like because you guys. Contact juggling as gym class. How is this even real life.

Things have just been real neato, and I wanted to share. I can roll bridges now, and (almost) spin pyramids. Eyedea and I have been painting ourselves like assorted sprites and elementals and juggling around Northeast Ohio. The Montessori kids want to start a juggling club so we can keep working after this quarter ends. It's a big time, folks!

(I've really missed participating in dotorg. Am endlessly glad to be back from the land of turbogradschool)

You rang?

(could not resist...)

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Sounds very cool! I think it's totally great that the kids at your school get the chance to try out all this cool stuff.
I really think it's important that kids get the chance to see all the interesting stuff out there. And it's certainly better then playing basketball or soccer all the time...
I love science, math, biology etc. (yes, I actually do ) - but music, art and play is also important and a central part of a well-rounded education.

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Awesome!

Yeah, this is totally awesome. I would have LOVED to go to this school. Go, claybody!!

Something you may have already thought of... As the students learn and improve, it would be really cool to do a collab for the juggling group at the end of the year. If I was in that school, that would be exciting and great incentive to be a part of that.

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yes yes! Small performance! Simple things! This would equal UBER CUTE CONTACT JUGGLING GOODNESS.
I'm glad they like your juggling! WOOT

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Man, I remember Montessori being cooler than my elementary school that followed, but we still didn't have anything like that! Neat!!!

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Go you!! That's seriously awesome.

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MAN! I wish at ANY point in my educational process, ANYONE would have tried to show me anything circusy..

Those are some lucky kids.

Way to go!

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