The entire 9th grade boarded buses and ventured to the Old Sturbridge Village living museum in Massachusetts.
The students broke into investigative groups and traversed the village interviewing the townspeople. Remaining in their historic character, the townspeople assisted our young people as they attempted to solve a socio-economic stress the community was facing. All students gathered that afternoon in the townhall and debated the issue followed by a vote. This hands on activity grants our young people an up close view of the nascent democracies that organically formed in English speaking colonial New England 400 hundred years ago.
Appreciation to our PTA for significantly subsidizing the trip.
