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Jamie Kenneth Banks

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The Humanness of Whizardry

August 27, 2025

That Pi Day a 2nd grader beat out 12th graders in the school-wide recitation contest and left the auditorium with a mouth full of pie. I’d known of the child–a whiz with numbers, his Lower School teachers said. We can’t get him into our class stories the other kids love. After Tim’s big upset win … More The Humanness of Whizardry

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Teach Them Fighting Words

August 16, 2025

One day it had gotten to that point and I was in the German School director’s office big mad about racism. We’re allowed to speak in English if we absolutely need to: if it’s urgent, say, medically or emotionally. It might have been easier for barely-intermediate me…but dammit, I was gonna show her I was … More Teach Them Fighting Words

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