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“4:50 – that magic number. Each day we hear the page echo through both buildings telling us it’s time to go. We grab our lunches, backpacks, art projects or instruments, pack them in our cars and drive back home only to return the next day. I’ll miss the drive, to be honest. There’s nothing quite like rolling through the shade of trees on Queen Anne and pulling up to Amy on her little pink bike, little boys playing four square, then turning off the car no longer hearing Fugazi or Mewithoutyou or whichever CD Eli’s blasting that day, then putting the Camry in park and walking up the stone path into school.”

“I’d say the best ways to become acquainted with School Meeting were those times when someone wants to change a rule or someone wants something to happen, and they get their group together and say, “Guys, this means a lot to me. Let’s go to School Meeting.”

“There’s a certain bond that all Sudbury students and staff share with one another, and although this connection can be difficult to pinpoint in one single phrase, it’s understood by all of us on a much deeper level that is borderline impossible to describe using words.”

“I realize that letting go is probably one of the hardest things a parent can do for their kid, but I would urge them not to see playing games as any kind of warning sign. Through playing games you develop communication, problem solving, and creativity. You learn what you’re passionate about. None of those skills are exclusively important to the game industry.”