Boundless School Blog

Dear Boundless Families: Military generals of old would say that the tides of war turned in the trenches. For many teenagers in today's trenches, the enemy is one's own mental health - trying to achieve an elusive sense of balance amidst the many adolescent fires...

Dear Boundless Families: It's day ten of the boarding school, and our students' small victories are adding up. Imagine kids plucked out of their Covid conundrums and plopped into our 600-acre wilderness classroom, where the moon and the sun compete in nature's...

Dear Boundless Families: If you can't go to Miami beach, then bring Miami beach to you. Such has been the case with this insanely warm weather the past week, finally turned icy cold this morning. The heat and blue skies have had a giddy effect on everyone. Bare...

Dear Boundless Families: The sun has gone AWOL. The November nip arrived mid-October. Approaching day fifty, the kids are about to break a record for the longest uninterrupted stay at Boundless. The dog days of November are upon us. This means some drama in a group...

Dear Boundless Families: Distanced, masked and tasked with protocols in our Covid fortress, your kids arrived safely today, and are about to finish the customary customs, which are kind of freaky in their thoroughness. Mary-Michelle, our inconveniently hyphenated...

Dear Diary, It's day 25 of online english. This whole platform is beguiling. Today we had our first online injury as Aaron (teacher) and I convinced a student we were coming after him for not doing his work.  While still on a video call with us he ran into a wall...

As a parenting principle, consider the merit of “letting go” during these dog days of Covid. You’ll be creating conditions for initiative and productivity. According to a CAMH study released on Wednesday, over half the youth aged 15-27 are sinking into a feeling of...

Dear Boundless Community: We've all been waiting for the axe to fall on the summer, and now that it has fallen, as per Ontario's announcement yesterday, it is received with great melancholy, and admittedly, some relief too. Our Boundless team just couldn't conjure...

As Covid begins ACT II of its Shakespearean shakeup, perhaps, like me, you are finding that positive mantras are becoming anorexic. How many “stay safes” or “we’re in this togethers” can one possibly endure? I figure it’s okay to get dour once in a while. Let's go...

Dear Friends and Parents: In February, I spoke on an education panel, fielding questions from 250 McGill students about to complete their teaching degree. The event was a recruiter’s paradise. In a dark room filled with bright eyed Millennials and Gen Zees, scores...