Exposure to classmates from diverse ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds not only enriches the educational experience, it helps make the world up-close and real for our students. To Share At Charlotte Country Day School, we actively cultivate a strong sense of community because we believe it provides the kind of climate young people need to realize their full potential. A close-knit community also provides the best framework to foster integrity, ethical behavior, leadership, and personal responsibility. Consequently, we encourage students to be eager participants in the life of our community. Sharing knowledge and ideas in the classroom, contributing talents on the playing fields and the stage, generating school spirit and enthusiasm as cheerleaders or fans, and sharing responsibility for student government are all part of campus life.
Students also reach beyond our campus boundaries to engage in community service.
They collect food for refugee families and homeless shelters, send clothes and toys to children in war-torn countries across the globe, visit local nursing homes to share pets from the Humane Society with residents, and raise money for causes both near and far. Through such activities, our students learn about service and leadership, and about treating others with dignity and respect. Parents reinforce these valuable lessons through a wide array of activities that support and strengthen the school. Whether parents are supervising games at the school's family festival, serving as volunteers or leaders of the school's parent groups, or meeting with teachers to discuss the academic progress of their children, their efforts greatly enhance the home-school partnership. Our school is more than just an institution.