MindStretched Jr High
You're living your most affordable future.
Most people never realize why.
The Founder of MindStretched
Every school has a story about how it began. Most of them involve generous donors, important speeches, or somebody standing in front of a freshly dug hole with a shiny shovel and an oversized pair of scissors. Ours is considerably less impressive. As far as anyone can tell, MindStretched Junior High began because one teacher attended far too many mandatory in-service meetings and had the unfortunate habit of taking them seriously...Continue the story
About the School
People who visit MindStretched Junior High for the first time usually spend the first ten minutes looking for whatever makes it different. They expect unusual classrooms, mysterious symbols on the walls, perhaps an odd dress code or a school song nobody else has heard of. Instead they find lockers that occasionally jam, seventh graders who are somehow capable of producing an astonishing amount of noise before eight o'clock in the morning, and teachers reminding students that no, putting your backpack in the middle of the hallway has never been a particularly effective storage solution. At first glance it seems disappointingly ordinary...Continue the story
Why the Professor Teaches at MindStretched
By the time the Professor left the university, she had everything most academics spend an entire career trying to earn. She had tenure, a respected research lab, graduate students who quoted her papers back to her, and an office whose bookshelves had long ago surrendered to stacks of journals balanced on every available horizontal surface. Colleagues assumed she'd eventually chair a department. Some were quietly convinced she'd end up running an entire institute. Instead, she resigned...Continue the story
