The Grauer School is a small school by design. We're seeing a proliferation of small school networks, because the world needs more small, safe, and real organizations that really connect us. Here’s what you need to know.
Small School Sittin’ On A Rainbow
A couple decades ago, we began seeing data that had never been noticed: The small school is safer, higher performance, and more connected.
Happier.
Dr. Grauer handing out freshly-squeezed orange juice and garden produce from the school's garden to Grauer students and families - May 31, 2023
The world is catching on to a proliferation of small school networks. They are forming nationally and internationally. They are asking us for help because we have been at it longer at this point. We are seeing new material:
The smaller school needs fewer supply chains.
The small school needs no unions – we are the union!
We are “the change we want to see in the world.”
The small school is the real economy of scale.
The small school is the antidote to a “never enough” world: Pays its own way, needs fewer banks and bankers. The small school is not $75 million in debt. We are enough. Simple.
"Against all odds, honey, we’re the big door prize." (John Prine)
We are not a system. We are not an institution. We are not a thing. We are not virtual. Our intelligence is not artificial, it is real, and we are here to experience the curvature of life rather than the straight lines. We are not a race. We cannot be captured by any ranking. We are neither fair nor unfair. We are not lost, we are finding our way.
Dr. Grauer playing pickleball with Grauer students and Visual Arts teacher Johnny King - May 31, 2023
We are kids: We are not practicing to become anything else. We are great at being kids, yearning and in pain, joyful at times, and coming of age our whole lives. Unfixable. “In the cost-benefit analysis of coming of age…” is not a sentence.
It’s nice to be heard, and witnessed, as small schools do best. It can take a while, but we come around together. We are the club and the affinity group. We are connected, and sufficient. There is nothing real to win.
We are quick on our feet. You can’t catch us. But try, because the world needs small, local, connected, intimate, real organizations, and we love you being in them.
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