The idea of holding set "Revisit Days" evolved about twelve or fifteen years ago, when the expectation of formal revisits was set by a growing number of savvy, discriminating families. We hosted more than one hundred revisitors over the past week. Avoiding the crowded lunch room, these kids took over the upstairs function room:

These Revisit Days were certainly the most successful ones we have ever offered. A student panel accomplished what adults could never do, with comments and responses that were honest, thoughtful and articulate.

Visiting parent lobbed some tough questions to the panel, and everyone was stunned by the maturity with which students responded. "What would you change about Proctor?" Answers: "I would make Project Period longer" and "I don't like Saturday morning classes."

Here are Corinne and Lauren dissecting a pig's heart. Yes, Lauren's finger is stuck in the aorta.

Revisit Days are not easy, but there is little more important to a small school than the composition of its student population, and we accomplished a great deal this week. Here's an astronomy class getting oriented to telescopes it will be using for the rest of the term.

In fact, this class was preparing the telescope sighting mechanisms to help find targets by training on the cell tower atop Ragged Mountain. Later, at 9:00 PM, they met to observe Mars.

Here are Kenny, Alex and Tristan in Advanced Placement Calculus.

And here they are a few minutes later, putting their smarts to good use: