East Grand Middle School & Values

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Shown below: Summer '99 construction photos of the New East Grand
Middle School. See below for details and a few words about VALUES.

Kudos to the citizens of Grand County for putting schools first!
Major expansions at Middle Park High School and Fraser Valley Elementary
have been completed and readied for students' and teachers' full use
this epochal 1999-2000 school year. The photos above are of the
new Middle School. Its doors will be opened to students in the year 2000.
In a few months we will give you a preview of the interior.

The Middle school has grades 6-8 and serves students from Granby,
Grand Lake, Winter Park, Fraser, Tabernash and Hot Sulphur Springs.
It is located on a mesa above Granby with large playing fields connecting
it to the high school.

Fall 1997 Enrollment figures at East Grand Middle School are as follows:
6th=96, 7th=99, 8th=120. Total = 315.

ATTENTION: to all potential new residents of Grand County.
We can arrange for you to personally tour our schools and meet
with teachers. Send us an e-mail to learn@MountainLake.com
with your children's ages and an estimate of when you'll be in
Grand County.

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Back to VALUES: a few more words about education:

We have all heard the drivel from politicians about being for schools,
for medical care and being against crime. Do they think that anyone is
for crime or against schools?!! The real issue is how to implement programs
that are the backbone of every community. The nitty-gritty is a lot of mind
numbing but essential meetings attended by dedicated citizens. We thank
those who have taken the trouble to care.

In the USA, we hear a lot about freedom and choices. To sanctify and protect
our "inalienable rights", our founders gave us a democracy with a separation
of church and state and a separation of powers. To keep their towering
edifice from crumbling into anarchy they had one hope: the basic goodness
and intelligence of common people. To underpin this hope, they had one
plan: EDUCATION. Before people can make informed decisions, they
need to know how to value things. It is through our VALUES that we
interpret the world and appraise all that is has to offer. When we value
something, it appreciates and becomes elevated from a common noun
to a proper noun worthy of being capitalized. Values are acquired.
Aesthetics is a fine art that is slowly learned.

Our valuations determine how we relate to the world and interpret it.
We can control the way we relate to the world.
We can control the way we take stock of it and value it.
When people value something, it often appreciates, and then others
appreciate it in all enhancing loop.
Whether something is to be appreciated or meaningful
is up to us. This is where we make our mark on reality.
Our values are the tinder for our creative sparks.

Our values are a summation of our hopes and expectations.
They are judgments we pronounce on what exists.
Our up-to-the-minute rapid-fire appraisals become our feelings!
If we are surrounded by things we value, we feel great!
A key to the good life is through one's values.

Before the young (or old) can exercise good judgement, they need to
properly value things. Every mistake is caused by a mis-valuation,
a contradiction between ones interpretations and what really exists.
A person with no values is a cynic who trivializes everything.

The full and proper use of our "inalienable rights" and creativity
hinges on our ability to assess and value our surroundings, steeped
in history and lore and reaching to the furthest galaxies. The task can not
be accomplished without an excellent education.

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