We can request sincerity and authenticity from our parents. We can ask those who cannot be here in ways that suit our goals to leave. R elationship Lastly, an independent school sets out from the beginning to have strong relationships with its community of students, parents, and faculty - past, present and future. We feel the measure of a school is in how its graduates show up in the world. Therefore, it is important that we know what our former students have achieved, and that we celebrate and hold them as challenges and examples.
American institutions are organized amnesia.
We belong to them for a time, and then way is made for the next customers and consumers. In a well-constituted independent school, your association is lifelong. Different paths to self-expression and to citizenship serve the nation well. Public, private, religious, theosophical, it does not matter. We flourish by a proliferation of educational formats.