{"id":330,"date":"2014-04-08T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/?p=330"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T11:27:54","slug":"march-madness-april-gladness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2014\/04\/08\/march-madness-april-gladness\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness, April Gladness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March madness ends on April 10<sup>th<\/sup>, at least in the boarding school world.\u00a0 That\u2019s the date that marks the deadline for students holding acceptance letters to choose which school they will attend.\u00a0 Williston, as with our peer schools, has held a number of \u201cSecond Visit Days\u201d in an effort to provide admitted students and their families with as much information as possible with which to make an informed choice.\u00a0 Unlike many boarding schools, Williston invites students to spend the night in our dorms, a \u201csleepover\u201d which undoubtedly makes for more tired eyes\u00a0on the full day of activities that follows. Why do we do that?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2014\/04\/Activities-fair-at-Williston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-331\" alt=\"Activities fair at Williston\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2014\/04\/Activities-fair-at-Williston-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students and families face a big decision. \u00a0To make a clear choice, one needs to process myriad facts and details as well as to sort through stereotypes in order to gain a level of insight that\u2019s often hard to accomplish.\u00a0 Williston, literally, provides such a chance for \u201cin-sight\u201d\u2014looking into the inner workings of our school from life in the dormitories to classrooms, to a variety of panels and exchanges representing every aspect of a student\u2019s experience.\u00a0 We open our school to families because we are, authentically, an open school.\u00a0 We believe that each student we\u2019ve admitted will thrive at Williston, contribute meaningfully to our community, and become engaged and transformed by her\/his time here.<\/p>\n<p>So as April 10<sup>th<\/sup> approaches, I advise families to privilege their \u201csixth sense,\u201d to pay attention to the insights they have gleaned from school visits, and above all, to have fun in the opportunity that exciting choices present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March madness ends on April 10th, at least in the boarding school world.\u00a0 That\u2019s the date that marks the deadline for students holding acceptance letters to choose which school they will attend.\u00a0 Williston, as with our peer schools, has held a number of \u201cSecond Visit Days\u201d in an effort to provide admitted students and their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2014\/04\/08\/march-madness-april-gladness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March Madness, April Gladness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}