Medina has a good shot with her jumps (of going to state).

(Medina) has been jumping pretty well.

We were a little short-handed. A lot of kids were gone for spring break.

If we get him back, we may have a couple chances for the boys' relays (making it to state).

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.