Tremendous Opportunities

At its root, "opportunity" means “favorable wind.” More than anything, you want your children to have opportunities in life, to have those favorable winds that will take them where their nature, experiences, passions, and dreams guide them. What kind of opportunities will your child have in independent schools? While each school has its own unique combination of offerings, here are some of the most common and most important.

Students Have the Opportunity to:

• test themselves against high standards of academic excellence.
• form enduring, meaningful relationships with caring adults;
• try different sports and play on an interscholastic team without being a superstar;
• experience the arts and music as an integral part of education and not as a kind of luxury, subject to the ups and  downs of town budgets;
• learn how to be an effective leader (and there are many kinds of leadership);
• make life-long friends (parents will make them too);
• learn to give of themselves through community service;
• travel with school groups and even study abroad;
• experience a diverse community of students and adults, drawn from a wide range of communities and countries.