I became suspicious as the excuses grew more far fetched and looked up the family name on our QA database to discover there was as student with the same family name in one of last year’s retired classes. I asked the caller if this was him and he finally had to confess “oh pshhhhhh” yes it was him. The upshot was that he had changed schools, in fact states and his new school had not heard of Quest Atlantis.  He totally loves QA declaring “Sorry i’m really sorry. its just i’m really interested in QA! im like crazy for it and i really wana learn more about it“.  It seems my young Quester friend thought that if he were to do the teacher training he could bring QA to his new school. Well my heart rose from a my  adult annoyance at his presumption and cheekiness to being so totally chuffed that our program actually means that much to the learners who inhabit it.

And I know you are wondering what happened to our young QA advocate. I decided to sponsor him in QA myself and to give him a special role in the community, not quite as a teacher, but commensurate with the initiative he had shown. He certainly seems worth keeping around even if only for the warmth of this one day’s events