… I was looking back through old yearbooks for inspiration for a piece of writing I have to do, and I stumbled across what I wrote to the class of 2003 in their yearbook:

"Look back fondly on your time at Beacon — hopefully most of you will. If the experiences you’ve had, the friends you’ve made, the things you’ve learned, the ways in which you’ve grown are to mean anything, then remember that everything that happened here happened because a group of administrators, teachers and students got together and said that ‘good enough’ wasn’t, and they dared to dream of a school that was more than ‘good enough.’

And, if Beacon has taught us all anything, remember that ‘good enough’ rarely is, and that you have have the power to make the world around you so much more than ‘good enough.’"

Two years later, nine years into my experience there and thirteen years into the experiment, that still rings true as to how the place is just so special.