Parent - teacher conferences are also held regularly. Each spring, juniors meet individually with a faculty committee to evaluate progress toward meeting the school s graduation requirements and to discuss plans for the senior year. They are asked to reflect on their personal strengths and weaknesses, their academic development thus far and their goals for the near and distant future. Students receive a college counselling handbook with materials appropriate to their grade level which will be used as the basis for college counseling conversations. Nearly every classroom at PDS is equipped with networked computers with direct internet connections.
Students begin working on computers in pre-kindergarten.
All middle and upper school students maintain their own e-mail accounts and intranet web space. Students with modems can access the library computer system from home. Students can also borrow books through interlibrary loans from any school or public library in Dutchess County. Librarians organize special programs throughout the year based on faculty and student needs and interests. Foreign Languages Students at PDS learn foreign languages from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade graduation.