This morning, I heard a teacher remark, "New students are in awe, and the returning students are glad to be back." Certainly, we seem to have reached full stride in a hurry. If there is awe, it stems from both the quantity and quality of programs. All of this is the product, I suspect, of having 92 teachers for 336 students, better than 1 adult to every 4 kids.
Notice that a relatively large faculty is a choice made by the trustees and administration (at considerable expense) to augment not only the academic mission, but the breadth of extracurricular offerings.... boatbuilding, ski jumping, rock-climbing, forestry, not to mention the nation's best-evolved experiential immersion programs. On the other hand, we would be nowhere without the academic relationships that distinguish this place.
Two days into the school year things feel good. People are doing exactly what they should: skateboarding, wheelies....the stuff of which this site is made. They're also tackling the toughest homework assignments they have known.
