Students Being Their Best Selves (By Dr. Dawn Nichols, Head of School)

Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with all of our students at the weekly morning meeting – to ask for their help regarding a problem that we are trying to solve. There has been intermittent mischief resulting in damage to the boys’ bathrooms in the academic building and boys’ locker room in the Carter Athletic Center.

We believe that only a very few students have been engaging in this misbehavior. Yet these antics have resulted in inconvenience to many of our young men as bathroom traffic has had to be rerouted due to closures for repair. And, of course, this situation has necessarily taken our hard-working maintenance/ custodial team away from their other many responsibilities on too many an occasion of late.

I asked the students to nurture in their own hearts and minds as well as in the hearts and minds of others that taking care of St. Michael’s for today and tomorrow – for our students and our visitors - is a shared responsibility. Should they see such things occurring, we ask that they speak up and be part of the solution.

I asked if any students would also wish to speak to the situation, and two young men offered very impactful messages. In my view, that was the highlight of the gathering – hearing students talking to students about being their best selves.

Optimism reigns that we solve this problem in short order. Perhaps we already have.
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