Caren Kuster and Florian Mathias, two spunky German visiting students, came to our high school last fall. Both students had no idea what they were in for, but they came with open minds and creative spirits, wanting to make the best of it. [Read more…]

by Caren Küster ’10 – 30 Sep 2008
On my first day, when I came into the school, I was surprised! I asked myself where are all the students? From the information I was given, I was expecting twenty students per class, and that would have been a very small class in Germany. [Read more…]

by Gertrude H. Wilson – 30 Nov 2004

Dear Friends,

I am an avid reader and diehard fan of The Globe. I have received, read, and re-read every one of the publications and am enchanted. You are doing a wonderful thing by starting a high school. I have one question for you: Am I your only reader? Do you publish the Globe solely for my enjoyment? Your ìletters to the editorî column is so empty. You should encourage the community to send letters with their thoughts and feelings. [Read more…]

by Stephen Sagarin, 11th grade advisor – 30 Nov 2004

In August 1988, before the start of my third year of teaching, I dreamed I stood before a difficult class in the school library. I wore my shirt, jacket and tie, but nothing else; this was embarrassing. No one noticed, but I was uncomfortable and tried to find excuses to leave. The class became more and more unruly until I walked over and slapped a studentóhe shall remain nameless, but he was someone very specific – across the face, hard. [Read more…]

by Emma Franco – 14 Oct 2004

There is no long-winded introduction; it does not take twenty pages for anything interesting to happen: right from page one you are caught in the story. [Read more…]

by Susanne Fili – 14 Oct 2004

The first day in the new building of the high school was amazing. [Read more…]

by Emma Franco – 14 Oct 2004

Yon huge black cloud looks like a foul bombard that would shed its liquid upon us. The high winds sorely ruffle us and whip against our cheeks. [Read more…]

by Samantha Stier – 14 Oct 2004

‘Oh Lord, Lord, Lord!’ Desdemona screams as Othello smothers her to death with his bare hands. The woman he loved, he kills. [Read more…]

by Rachel Fletcher, Housatonic River Walk – 14 Oct 2004
September 29, 2004

Great Barrington Waldorf High School
c/o Rick Shrum
454 Main Street
Geat Barrington, MA 01230

Dear Friends, [Read more…]

by Stephen Sagarin, 11th grade advisor – 14 Oct 2004

Warning teenagers about the physiological and even the emotional effects of drug use has little value; who feels more immortal and invincible than a teen? [Read more…]