In order that we might continue modeling the kind of reading that is leisure rather than work, the parent reading group will continue meeting over the summer break. If we are very fortunate, and even a little bit persuasive, we will add to our numbers those who have not yet had the good fortune of passing a few hours in the company of interested and interesting people.

What was once the sanctum of a church is now Ridgeview’s performing arts complex – referred to by its familiars as the PAC.

Before leaving the lobby, the plaques recognizing our student’s academic achievement and character are noteworthy for two reasons.

As we proceed towards the PAC, one will notice to the right of the doors a large plaque with a lengthy quotation in Greek from Plato’s Republic.

The lightboxes in the wall opposite this stone tablet change periodically, but each picture serves to represent the community Ridgeview students have forged not out of the happenstance of districting, but through shared endeavors. Such

In this series of Principal’s Perspectives to be published over the coming months, a complete tour will be provided of Ridgeview’s facilities. It is hoped that in so doing, students, parents, faculty, and staff will gain a better understanding of the various ways in which the building reflects the aims and ambitions of a classical, liberal arts education and endeavors to be the type of place in which we become the type of people who gladly and cheerfully pursue such noble aims.

Over the past three weeks it has once again become clear how Ridgeview is different and what it is that makes it special. While children throughout America will spend a minimum of fifty percent of their waking hours between the ages of five and eighteen in a school, Ridgeview’s students and families unarguably get more for their investment.

As our days shorten to scarcely a blink, few of us are likely enjoying anything resembling a repose as we make our lists and gather our gifts for the impending holiday. As we rush to and fro harried and wearied by the obligations of the season, we are wont to neglect the spirit we are desperate to imbue it with. Nevertheless, the idealized version of the season beckons and we should be quick to indulge it.

We would like to convey our belated birthday wishes to the United States Marine Corps on its 241st year of service to the American republic.

If we suspend disbelief completely enough, we might still see clearly enough to take stock and vote as citizens of a free republic. It is sometimes the case that it is the preservation of our past that gives hope to our future.

It would be indecent not to dedicate the Principal’s Perspective this week to the event that changed our nation fifteen years ago.

Our school is healthy and vibrant, but if there is one aspect that is difficult to make students appreciate, it is this: the harder you work for your school, the harder your school can work for you. While there is a neat parallelism to that sentence, there is actually much that makes it a complicated truth.