A parent recently sent the following email message to me, and I am happy to share it. His family is new to WCFS this year and, not surprisingly, he has already discovered one of the greatest qualities of our school.

T. Matt,

I recently read an article in the NYT about educational reform. One paragraph made me think of the staff @ WCFS. I think the student teacher relationships that are developed are the best part of WCFS.

"We’ve spent years working on ways to restructure schools, but what matters most is the relationship between one student and one teacher. You ask a kid who has graduated from high school to list the teachers who mattered in his life, and he will reel off names. You ask a kid who dropped out, and he will not even understand the question. Relationships like that are beyond his experience."

(The full article - an op-ed by David Brooks - is a good read.)