In addition to the edification of our dear charges, we are gearing up here at the school for some exciting events and visitors to our school.

 

This week the Search Committee will bring our first Head of School candidate to campus for a full day of meeting, greeting and talking. (Please see schedule below for full details.) We are all very excited to meet the candidates and we feel tremendous gratitude to the Search Committee for their incredibly hard work for the last six months.  We hope you will have a chance to meet with and interact a bit with each candidate.

 

On Saturday Center School is honored to host the annual conference of the New England Coalition of Progressive Educators. We will have a large group of teachers, lobbyists and administrators from all over the region who come together out of a common passion around education. We have hosted the conference for the last few years and it has always been a source of inspiration. Many of our teachers will be in attendance.

 

We have other, um, not-so-welcome visitors as well.  Lice continue to plague the Center School. There has not been one week here at GCS this year without lice somewhere in the school.  We have had many parents suggest that there be a mandatory lice-checking station as students enter each building.  While we understand the desire to keep lice at bay and while we sympathize heartily with parents who are doing daily checks of their children, we simply cannot staff that sort of oversight.  A school-wide lice check takes between 4-5 hours and we can't put our daily work aside to accomplish this regularly.  Therefor we must beg and implore you to please, please, please do daily lice checks on your child or children. This is the absolute only way we will take care of this problem.  Your vigilance can and will make a difference.  Thank you.