Our weekly schedule has only six "blocks" --or periods--that rotate through the week. Most students take 5 academic majors and a "skills" or arts course, so there's no time to be offering tours to the 500+ families that want to see the place. Those students who do have a free block are desperately recruited to give tours...again and again. It's a great service to the school, and can be genuinely rewarding, but--over time--it's a tough job. Here's Zach holding open the front door of 204 Main Street, also known as Maxwell Savage.
Part of the challenge is communicating how thoroughly different this school is to people who may come with agendas to contrast schools based on trivial issues. For example, Proctor is intensively student-centered... a complicated principle. But the visiting parent may ask, "What class is this where the teacher's flailing his arms?" Answer: "Honors geometry."
Then there is the litany of questions dwelling on dress code. Zach explains that every student has an opportunity to spend a trimester at one of our campuses in France or Spain for no additional tuition cost, when the question is raised: "That boy's not wearing a tie. Is that OK?"
