Becoming a Presence

We had a meeting with Dorian and Darius today to discuss some of the ideas we had for the direction Deseret Academy would move in for the future. Alicia was working but was angy that she had not been invited. I really had not thought she has much interest in Deseret Academy as her involvement up to this point has been restrained. I thought this more because she has so many other kettles boiling with her own business preparations not to mention taking care of Darius is a full time job. (I feel blessed that Roger does not need much taking care of. Maybe he does, but he has adapted to a life without it. I'll have to talk to him about that sometime.)

Anyway, among other things, one item on the agenda that really has stuck with me all day is an analogy that Dorian made to someone he follows who owns a sports team that has made them a big-ticket item based on giving them a bigger presence. That really is what we are trying to do with Deseret Academy! If they can get the presence, they can make a difference if for no other reason than higher credibility. People listen to those they sense are a presence.

I am going to be thinking about that a little more in the next little while and we'll see what we come up with. Dorian would like to see us contribute to the community by opening a skate park where the young people can participate in a wholesome activity. That seems very daunting. Of course, that's never stopped us before, so we'll see what comes of it.

I have been thinking a lot about sports for the high school crowd as our students don't have that option available to them after little league. I don't know how much interest there would be from our students, but fielding an American Legion team would also give us a little presence. He mentioned us wearing shirts that have our school name on them as well, so he had a lot of good ideas.

The other thing we are going to do is a beta internet school next year. Darius will be putting that together for us. Dorian suggested using a myspace page as the main way of communicating with existing students while the website we improve will communicate to new students.

Day 2 is going well, surprisingly enough.