The Mountain Laurel Sudbury School is a very unusual school setting which allows the students to pursue their own interest and to teach whatever the students want to learn under the leadership of Professor Robert White who is a retired from Wesleyan University and currently teaches at CCSU part time in New Britain Ct.
Professor White continued by stating that the students are allowed to pursue whatever interest on their own.
This is not a conventional setting with the student’s ages ranging from five to eighteen.
The students work on whatever interest them at any particular time and amazingly they are completely focused in completing their current work allowing no outside interference to interrupt whatever they are currently working on.
As a good example, while I was interviewing Professor White, not one student stopped his or her current work to see what I was doing there. As Stated by Professor White that they are all completely focused with their pursuits.
Much to my amazement this school is conducted in Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church meeting building in New Britain at 147 West Main Street.
This school meets all our State standards as to its requirements that the students attend the required amount of days mandated by the state statute with the Mountain Laurel Sudbury School setting its five day schedule that starts 8:30 AM through 5PM.
This proves the real dedication these young students have in learning all they can through self exploration and with their selection of their own subjects.
One may ask who is paying for the cost and I was shocked to learn that this operation is funded through private sources with no cost to the state’s taxpayers.
My recent story about Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church’s dedication to helping its community is proven with their providing the necessary space for the Mountain Laurel Sudbury School which the general public would consider this being beyond the normal call of a church to provide.
Congratulations for all the parishioners for you’re never ending quest for giving to the community.
5 comments:
Saint Mark's Church Provides for these extra special talented students with the necessary school space.
A Parent of a student
Glad to see Saint Mark's Espiscopal Church step up in helping these very talented students of the Moutain Laurel School
A Burlington Resident
I am happy for the tallented students that are attending the Mountain Laurel Sudbury school.
Ella of South Windsor, Ct.
The Mountain laurel Sudbury School methods for study making these very talented students work at their best during their thirty seven and one half hours of class setting each week.
Our public school students lose ten or so minutes between each class changes including to and from lunch while the Mountain Laurel are still studying.
Victor of New Britain, Conn.
Glad to hear that the Church is fulfilling such an important need withing the community!
An uncle of a New Britain student
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