“Why”…Wednesdays

By the time you read this, my moment in the spotlight will have come and gone. Thank goodness. I’m not a terrific dancer. Let me backup to tell you how I ended up on stage in front of almost everyone at my school. Two Senior girls completed an independent study in choreography. All spring, they…

I recently got back from a twenty-four-hour trip to Philadelphia to work with my teaching fellow, a teacher at Hotchkiss and a graduate student in University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Education program. For her work, she teaches some Hotchkiss classes, takes courses (both online and in person at various points in the year), and works…

When we first got to Hotchkiss, an older teacher warned us to “Get out of dodge (Dodge?) during reunion weekend.” That teacher let us know that the five and ten-year classes often behaved in ridiculous ways, the dorm would be loud all night, and mayhem would ensue. Why would we stick around, we wondered, since…

I know the adage, “It’s not fun unless it’s fun for everybody,” and completely agree. If a person does something mean and calls it a prank, really she/he’s just lying about being a bully. I’m not for that. But the other morning, when a bouncy house appeared in the middle of our school’s Dining Hall,…