While I'm away on vacation, I'm recycling some of last spring's best. This one first appeared April 23.
In 1971, Dave Fowler met with his faculty for the first time as the new Head and asked, "What kind of school do you want to create?" With those words, he set forces into motion that define Proctor today. The non-adversarial climate that distinguishes this community is the product of structures and policies that are limited to common sense arenas. It certainly is easy to be in the dress code. The most common problem is hats worn indoors. Let's see: which student in this biology class is not in dress code?
Speaking of hats, I asked Patrick and Geoff why they didn't radically bend the visors of their baseball caps like other cool teenagers. What a stupid question! These are not--it turns out--baseball caps. They're truckers' mesh hats, and they're the height of fashion--looking just like this.
Patrick, incidentally, turns 19 today. He's announced that he's spent enough years in high school, and is now going to go on to college! Congratulations all the way around, Patrick!
It's not written in the student handbook, but it is universally understood that the dress code doesn't apply to the dishroom. Do you think kids are wearing hats there today?
