(Part Two)
It is expensive because it provides a higher academic education in an arts based environment that is not offered elsewhere, not because we have an inherently better-than-public-school student body. Teenagers are teenagers, and as we do pride ourselves on having students with exceptional and advanced maturity, our job as a school is to encourage that, and TEACH them to have that, not mandate every student come in with it. Third of all, and most importantly, the insinuation that Mrs. Folberg’s retirement has anything to with issue is reckless, and I question your journalistic integrity by publishing that article that led the public to such blatantly incorrect ideas. Mary is an amazing head of school; we all love her. But, she has been thinking of retiring for a while, and only recently announced it.