Corinne G

Good afternoon! I would love to share that my husband and I are thrilled with the learning that is going on in our son’s class. He participates in the prep class at Skipwith Academy at Rutland. He is only there part time for now and we plan to enroll him full-time closer to kindergarten. He comes home when he attends and talks about all of the fun things that he is doing. Just last night our toddler had made a mess at home with a bunch of shoes and he ran over to the mess and said ”This is a huge mess; all of these shoes are disheveled!” My husband and I were mind-blown that he actually use the word disheveled correctly. When I asked him where he had heard it he said, “At school, it is one of our words this week.” I called the school to let them know and sure enough it was in fact one of the words for the week. Not only did he remember but he also used it correctly in a sentence and applied it to his real life! I am currently an assistant principal at a middle school and a former English teacher of a decade. I have some middle schoolers that can’t take a word out of context and apply it to another so needless to say we are very impressed with the job that the teachers and directors are doing at Rutland! Keep up the great work! High expectations equal highly successful children that Foster a love of learning for a lifetime.