Josh Benner

Tag: school

  • Ohio high school eliminates valedictorian

    Mason High School in Mason, OH announced last week that they will be discontinuing their awards of valedictorian and salutatorian next year. In a statement from the school, they talk about research they’ve done as well as focus groups among students, faculty, and parents. They argue that class rank is not Mason High School principal…

  • 20 little faces

    I think of those 20 kids. Those 20 little faces. 20 people who had all of the potential in the world. 20 innocent people, who despite all of the evil, and discontent in our society and in our world, were still at an age when they hadn’t yet been corrupted. I think of 20 kids…

  • Life update: I’m moving to Chicago in 19 days

    I’m so excited to be moving to the Chicago area on May 20. It’s a sudden decision and is something that, just a month and a half ago, was honestly not on my radar and that I hadn’t been considering. This spring, I started taking graduate classes at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in their Master…

  • The start of graduate school: a new chapter

    I start graduate school this week. A little over three years ago, when I graduated from college, I always knew that I would be back. If you had asked me at the time, I probably wouldn’t have expected it to take three years. But things come up, and life never quite seems to go as…