People in New Hampshire simply do not understand humidity. The best way I can explain the humidity in Washington DC is this, when i woke up this morning my hair was flat and after my walk back from Maret, my hair was, let's just say an afro.
But I digress, this morning was my last day "in the field". i spent the morning at Maret, which was enjoyable, suprisingly so.
I was expecting a uptight school, and the admissions people to be guarded but alas they were far from it. In fact they were the FIRST school to admit they had cliques! which was a HUGE bonus in my book, b/c let's be honest the movie Mean Girls was based on a book written about a particular all girls school in Washington DC which shall remain nameless, so the fact that cliques exist in DC is not exactly a surprise.
My favorite response to one of my questions was this
1) Do you have a lot of disciplinary problems, how are disciplinary issues handled?
- "Case by case, our biggest problem is kids who are too “chatty”, we take a counseling rather than punitive approach, we try to educate kids as much so that when they leave they have the right skills, yet we know that growing up means making mistakes."
Another thing that was cool about Maret is that there entire campus ( K-12) is located on one campus, meaning that high schoolers have to handle kindergardeners and visa versa, which leads to a very friendly, open and unique environment.
Tomorrow begins the tricky task of looking back through the immense plethora of information I have collected, sorting through it and starting to actually put together this "brochure"
Until tomorrow
PEACE+LOVE
Abbie
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