Ridgeview will resume its annual tradition of a Yule-time book flood, or Jólabókaflóðið as it goes by in Iceland. This is a tradition we embrace at our school for three reasons. First, reading, but more importantly, the promotion of reading as a joy is something that every school ought to regard as one of its foremost duties. Second, it should preference texts that it believes are more worthwhile than others—there should not be any anodyne relativism in this. Finally, it should assert that the education of students is not a thing that stands apart from the edification of the community they are drawn from.
