Hello. Another fantastically beautiful day in the Adirondacks. We just finished singing “Happy Birth Day” (NCS style) in the Dining Room.
The picture shows a 9th grader – Sarah – fulfilling one of our experiential graduation requirements. Of course, graduates need to have passed their courses and mastered the 3 Rs (reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmatic ). However, they also have to be able to head a table, run a lunch council meeting, learn to ride and groom a horse, ski down Whiteface, hike up Cascade, and this year, they will also be asked to bake bread for lunch. Finally, all the graduates are expected to make some brief remarks at graduation. Students leave us with a metaphoric “tool kit” full of cognitive, physical, social, and life skills.
Oh, and the homemade pizza was amazing, as was the homemade carrot cake that followed it!
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