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What Every Boarding School Can Learn from Summer Camp Communities
There is a moment at every great summer camp that feels almost impossible to explain. It’s only been a few days. Children who arrived as strangers are already laughing around a campfire. They know each other’s names. They’ve developed inside jokes. They cheer one another on with genuine enthusiasm. They begin to feel like they…
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Memorial Day in Boarding Schools: The Alumni Who Remind Us What Community Really Means
Memorial Day can be easy to misunderstand. For many Americans, it signals the start of summer. A long weekend. Time with family. A break in the school calendar. But Memorial Day was never meant to be comfortable. It is a day set aside to remember the men and women who died in military service to…
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The Weekend Effect: How 48 Hours Can Define a Boarding School’s Culture
Ask any boarding school student what makes their school feel like home, and they probably will not mention a class period. They will talk about the weekends. Weekends carry the emotional weight of a school’s culture. They are where structure meets spontaneity, and where students decide whether their campus feels like a place to live…