Month: July 2013

The Specialists: One of the Ways Fairhaven School Works

As we embark upon our fifteenth year,  in my mind, certain students flash before me: the skateboarder, the actor/director, the video gamer, and the dancer. All four of them have lived full lives at school, but their school-age years were consumed with their passions. Hour after hour, day after day, year after year the skateboarder…

Making the List: Understanding How You Came to be Educated

(Here is another compelling post from Fairhaven School parent and writer Johnna Schmidt. Enjoy!) In a bid to try to understand how my sons may come to be educated, I’ve been trying to understand how I myself have experienced education.  Always a list-maker, I’ve devised the following exercise and have found it clarifying: Draw a…