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Students often face the predicament of taking courses they are not neccessarily interested in.

Bountiful Courses, Limited Chances

April 14, 2017 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Imagine taking Spanish 100, Chinese 100, and French 100 in three consecutive years. That would likely not prove very productive.. A student would be unlikely to learn enough material to sustain a meaningful conversation and, odd are, he or she would soon forget whatever small elements of each language wereRead More

School to Stop Offering AP Courses

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

Students requesting their courses next year will find something missing in their options: Advancement Placement (AP) classes. Faculty overwhelmingly voted to remove AP designated courses from the curriculum last November, and the School recently announced that this will be implemented in the next academic year. Removing the AP designation meansRead More

Course Catalogue Unveiled As New Daily Schedule Looms

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

Amidst conversations about how the new daily schedule will impact new and preexisting courses next year, the School released the 2017-18 course catalogue last week. Key changes in the catalogue include several new electives, a modified sixth form English curriculum, and a lack of AP courses. Dr. Katie Jewett, DirectorRead More

Contemplating the Curriculum

Contemplating the Curriculum

April 22, 2016 at 6:00 am Comments are Disabled

Recently, the school has added several new courses to the curriculum, many of them interdisciplinary in nature. For example, some of the courses added recently are AP Journalism, Topics in Engineering, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Other new courses will be added next year as well: a history class called Colonial LatinRead More