Half of the 196 students who were offered admission on March 10 are back for "revisits" on Wednesday and Friday. This is terrifying stuff, as prospective students and their parents squeeze into classrooms that are anything but typical.
We offer a couple of panel discussions to cover key themes (the school's mission, discipline procedures, experiential programs, parent communications, etc.,) but the product of these visits is beyond anyone's control. Apparently this is fine; a high ratio of revisitors will enroll for 2007-08. In biology, Alan introduces himself to a revisitor:
If parents arrive expecting us to even try to appear perfect, they're in for a surprise. Proctor is a bunch adults working with real teenagers through real relationships. What you see is what you get. This is the start of earth science.
It takes guts to sit in on an arts class at a new school, and draw, but the visitor in this studio class threw himself into the activity.
Assembly featured a couple of tunes by the student rock band Slinky Tim.
Fifty-five "revisitors" will be here tomorrow. They missed Laurie's Themes in Literature class surprising her with snowmen depicting a teacher with little students.
And they missed the awards ceremony after this morning's deer scat spitting contest.....
