Solebury Head of School Tom Wilschutz shared the following thoughts at a student assembly on November 9, 2016. Good afternoon, I want to spend a few minutes and offer some context and perspective around this moment in our nation’s history. …
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We continue to live in an era of rapid cultural evolution. Reasonable people navigate these turbulent waters with humility, curiosity, and openness, yet even reasonable people can feel the passionate, loud, and often uncompromising voices of extreme perspectives – extreme …
Remember SchoolHouse Rock? “Conjunction – Junction, what’s your function?” If you are too young, it’s worth a Google. I loved it and learned plenty about “Hooking up words, and phrases and clauses…” But another thing that always stuck in my …
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Growing up in Mexico, I thought I would be too homesick to attend school abroad. Luckily for me, my cousin – who admittedly had more foresight than I at the time – attended a Culver Academies summer camp, nestled alongside …
“Cheddar, Swiss, American – I never knew Americans ate so many dairy products – so many kinds of cheese! I didn’t know what was what!” laughs an East Asian student talking about her first year at boarding school in the …
Expanding Perspectives at TABS/NAIS Global Symposium Read more »
TABS Report #3, Structural Elements of the International School Marketplace (available in the members only section of TABS.org) introduced the concept of international student recruiting as an “export industry” for a country’s boarding schools. True, for us, the movement of …
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I remember clearly how angry I was as I started reading Beverly Daniel Tatum’s brilliant book, Why are all the Black Children Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Her “open-and-shut case” attitude regarding the question of white men suffering “reverse discrimination” …
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Arch Montgomery grew up on boarding school campuses and went to a boarding school. His father was a boarding school headmaster, and his mother was Chair of a Board of Trustees for two decades at a boarding school. Boarding school …