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January 2018 Freeways and Country Lanes: A Rebirth of the Small Community School? “Will metro areas evolve from the behemoths they are today into a series of smaller self-contained communities, offering schools an opportunity to position themselves as community centers?” – Donna Orem, NAIS [1] I love motorcycling. (I know, it’s risky!) I had my eye on a BMW 850 and was getting warm for a while there. Before buying a bike, though, I thought to rent from the local shop, just to test the waters. So every weekend, I plotted out a course or destination for a tour, went to the shop, rented, and hopped on. After a few weeks of this I had to accept the dim truth: Just finding the two-lane blacktops, meandering country roads, or the mountain or hilly passes, took up half my ride. In most of Southern California, as here in San Diego, riding means wrestling with urban crowding and 10-lane freeways more than it means the freedom of winding through the curvies. As California came o...
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