Middle School Diplomacy

Lincoln Middle School, Berwyn, Illinois—population 57,250 if you’re counting, 57,249 if you discount the mayor’s ego—would appear, at first glance, to be the very antithesis of global consequence. A squat brick rectangle squatting on the prairie like a stubborn toad, its playground still scarred by the 1987 tornado that politely skipped the liquor store but…