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Dear Visitor,
Welcome to our website! I currently teach 7th and 8th grade history at Balboa Middle School in Ventura, CA. I am grateful and excited to be a part of this amazing campus, with its dedicated staff and talented students. You may be visiting because you are a student in one of my classes, or perhaps you are a parent/guardian of a student and want to be a part of some of the many interesting things we are involved in on a day to day basis. Either way, welcome to the website.
On this home page you can find a link to the official Balboa Middle School website, where you can find contact information for staff members, a school calendar, and many other important resources. Feel free to watch the short youtube clip here, I hope it will inspire you to examine just why the study of history is so important not only to us as individuals, but to the history of the planet as well.
I believe that history is a part of the continuing biography of our species, and so I think it is a responsibility of each of us to understand the past, and what we can learn from it. The modern world in the 21st century is a rapidly changing place, and seems to be full of a variety of dilemmas that we will face over the coming decades. The past is full of clues as to how humans have solved, or failed to solve, similar dilemmas centuries ago, and hopefully by analyzing these patterns of problem-solving we might be able to make our journey through the 21st century a successful one. Thank you for visiting.
- Mr. Chapin
Welcome to our website! I currently teach 7th and 8th grade history at Balboa Middle School in Ventura, CA. I am grateful and excited to be a part of this amazing campus, with its dedicated staff and talented students. You may be visiting because you are a student in one of my classes, or perhaps you are a parent/guardian of a student and want to be a part of some of the many interesting things we are involved in on a day to day basis. Either way, welcome to the website.
On this home page you can find a link to the official Balboa Middle School website, where you can find contact information for staff members, a school calendar, and many other important resources. Feel free to watch the short youtube clip here, I hope it will inspire you to examine just why the study of history is so important not only to us as individuals, but to the history of the planet as well.
I believe that history is a part of the continuing biography of our species, and so I think it is a responsibility of each of us to understand the past, and what we can learn from it. The modern world in the 21st century is a rapidly changing place, and seems to be full of a variety of dilemmas that we will face over the coming decades. The past is full of clues as to how humans have solved, or failed to solve, similar dilemmas centuries ago, and hopefully by analyzing these patterns of problem-solving we might be able to make our journey through the 21st century a successful one. Thank you for visiting.
- Mr. Chapin
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events,
and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
- Robert Kennedy
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a habor."
- Arnold J. Toynbee