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WHY SEVEN HILLS |
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"Grade school is largely a feminine environment, populated predominantly by women teachers and authority figures, that seems rigged against boys, against the higher activity level and lower level of impulse control that is normal for boys. As one disappointed boy remarked unhappily at the end of his first day of school: 'You can't do anything!' The trouble wasn't really that he couldn't do anything, of course, but that everything he loved to do – run, throw, wrestle, climb – was outlawed in the classroom. In this setting a boy's experience of school is as a thorn among roses: He is a different, lesser, and sometimes frowned-upon presence and he knows it." Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys At Seven Hills School we enlist faculty and staff who delight in boys and recognize the importance of the middle year of a boy's life. Imagine the educational possibilities in a setting where educators welcome the spirit and energy that boys bring into the classroom!
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