Prospective Students

I attended I.C.S. from kindergarten to eighth grade; the childhood years that are substantially the basis for any education achieved after that. I received a fantastic education, most especially in my own case in the Language Arts with teachers who permitted my roving eye to wander far and wide over any book I cared to read. I was far from alone among my cohort. The high school English teachers remarked on how easy it was to know an I.C.S. student from the others: we had better handwriting for one thing, but also were very solidly grounded in basics such as grammar, spelling, and the structure of a short essay. The formal education I received at I.C.S. has stood me in good stead: after completing my doctorate in American History, I became a university instructor of history, and now work in a hybrid position teaching both college and advanced high school students. I cannot imagine having completed my dissertation without the research and writing skills garnered in the middle school years at I.C.S. The informal education I received at I.C.S. deserves credit as well: in a classroom of truly mixed abilities. I learned patience, compassion, and the value of each person’s skills and abilities. That, I think, will stand me in even better stead over the rest of my life than will the wonderful academic skills I learned while at I.C.S. My teachers there remain the model by which I measure myself as an educator.