Earlier this week, I gave a tour to a family exploring our school for their sixth-grade daughter, who has been homeschooled.
She kept referring to Hebrew Academy as a “brick-and-mortar institution”. They were here to explore what it could look like, to learn in a more traditional setting.
She meant it respectfully. But the phrase kept catching me off guard.
When I walked into our Parent Coffee and Gratitude Breakfast the next morning and looked around the room, the word institution couldn’t have felt farther from the truth.
We’re not brick and mortar.
We’re not walls and systems and scheduled days.
We’re not just a school building.
We are people.
We are presence.
We are parents who say yes, not … Read More »