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My Experience at Choate as the… “Model Minority”

April 20, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

On April 8, I and five fellow Choate students woke up bright and early on a Sunday morning and boarded a bus to Deerfield to participate in the Asian American Footsteps Conference. We went to connect ourselves a little more with the Asian-American experience. The day started on a highRead More

Be a Leader for Your Community, Not Your Résumé

Be a Leader for Your Community, Not Your Résumé

April 20, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

  Most of us understand leadership as the ability to successfully guide a group of people. At Choate, leadership positions take many forms. On every athletic team, there are usually at least two captains. One can apply for prefectship, the Assessment Team, or Student Council. Every club offers leadership positions.Read More

Students Wonder: Is Our School Safe?

March 30, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Tragic mass shootings at schools in recent years have left many students at Choate wondering: is our protective boarding school in small-town Connecticut safe from a shooter? Since the fall of 2016, Ms. Risa Vine has been Choate’s Director of Risk Management. Ms. Vine works closely with Choate Community SafetyRead More

One Book, One Wallingford Program Unites Community in Reading

One Book, One Wallingford Program Unites Community in Reading

February 23, 2018 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

It can be difficult to get every one of the nearly 900 students at Choate to read the required summer-reading book. The Wallingford Public Library (WPL) has taken on an even tougher task: it’s invited all of the more than 45,000 Wallingford residents to pick up a copy of TheRead More

Facilities cuts down trees for various reasons, but many believe new trees should replace them.

Community Questions Tree Removal On Choate Construction

November 17, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

The Choate community will soon undergo the cutting down of trees in the construction site next to the PMAC, where the new auditorium is to be built. The space ranges from behind the PMAC to near the Great Lawn; in the light of the tree removal near Lanphier, some studentsRead More