COLLEAGUES
“I think we're a unique school in that our entire Science department, we've been together, the majority of us, for twenty years. It's been the same people.”
“So we’ve stayed here. We’ve raised our kids together. We go to functions together. My two absolute best friends I met here. They're my people. So when I come to work, if I have a bad day, I have somebody to vent to. So I have that support system here at school.”
STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY
“Our community, like our kids (…) they're great. We don't have fights. There's not a food fight. There's not fights in the hallway. These kids get along. The parents are highly involved. We're in the community, you know, all the time. They know us. We're a part of it. It's definitely more of a family—you don't take it home with you, but you know you have the support here.”
ADMINISTRATION—GOLDILOCKS SCHOOL
“I think the administration allows the teachers to have the autonomy in their classroom to teach how they feel that the kids need, and they support you being creative and trying new things. I can think of ten projects off the top of my head where (…) no other school would let their teachers do this (…)—the kids are building native gardens outside of the windows of our school, you know, and they're putting together budget plans. And the kids are planting them and the maintenance people now don't have to take care of them. It's like a win-win for everyone and I just don't know if that would happen at other schools.”
“It is an anomaly. When I tell my mom about it, she's always ‘I wish I had that like you.’ It's my Goldilocks school.”