Why J-Term matters
Snapshots from last Friday afternoon at New Hampton High School: Students spread out in the hallways working on projects … students in classrooms intently focusing on other projects … experts, if you will, working with students … teachers guiding students through problems … and yes, empty classrooms.This is J-Term.It looks different than the school we parents and grandparents attended. It is different.Yet, teachers are still teaching and students are still learning.Ask Chloe Reicherts, a student in a J-Term class in which she and her peers are writing murder mysteries that they will perform tonight [Tuesday] during a dinner theater that will be held in the cafeteria.— For more on this story, see the Jan. 15 New Hampton Tribune.