“Hechas, pues, estas prevenciones, no quiso aguardar más tiempo a poner en efeto su pensamiento, apretándole a ello la falta que él pensaba que hacía en el mundo su tardanza, según eran los agravios que pensaba deshacer, tuertos que enderezar, sinrazones que emendar, y abusos que mejorar y deudas que satisfacer.”
“Having, then made all these preparations, he did not wish to lose any time in putting his plan into effect, for he could not but blame himself for what the world was losing by his delay, so many were the wrongs that were to be righted, the grievances to be redressed, the abuses to be done away with, and the duties to be performed. “
We, too, can summarize our adventure.
Having been the subject of the three weeks of procrastinations that led nowhere, promises that were not fulfilled, and misleading messages that served to confuse, we can state that the Spanish I Course is not being offered. This issue discussed in depth in the e-mails with the principal and the Board, as well as on the Beren Parents Blog. Finances offered to the school, teachers suggested. Nine students in a high school of 70 being a significant group, their serious interest in learning Spanish disregarded.
The book which Harold Bloom calls the “first and finest modern novel, of cosmic significance” will remain closed to the students, who, if they do not start learning Spanish in 11th grade, will not be able to master the language before graduation.
Parents, who work hard and contribute significantly to the school's budget, still had their children deprived of a course that is offered for free in public schools all over the USA. And to think that the course would only cost $5,000-$10,000!
One can only conclude with another quote from the same book:
"The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty" - "la razón de la sinrazón que a mi razón se hace, de tal manera mi razón enflaquece, que con razón me quejo de la vuestra fermosura."
