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All costumed up for their surprise school dance at Pittsburgh Yards are, from left, senior Emma Tuck and juniors Sarah Hackmuth and Heaven Powell.
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By Donna Williams Lewis The first day of school for juniors and seniors at The New School is never traditional, and this year’s first day was no different. It wasn’t at school at all. Usually, upperclassmen at the small private high school in Grant Park do a
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camping trip, but the pandemic put them on a different path this year. “As high school students in Atlanta head back to school this year, they’re faced with rebuilding and renewing relationships with classmates, most of whom they haven’t seen in a year and a half,” said Jill Morehouse Lum, director of admissions. “Clearly, it’s an important time to explore what it means to be a teenager, in relationship with other teenagers, or, as we put it, who we are together.” The New School’s 38 juniors and seniors spent their first day of school at Pittsburgh Yards, starting the day with yoga on the rooftop of the coworking space on the Atlanta BeltLine. They then got busy working on plans for the school’s first ever prom in an assignment designed to get them in the mood for an end-of-day surprise – a silent and socially distanced dance party at Pittsburgh Yards, with music shared on headphones and costumes borrowed for the occasion. School leaders hoped to help make up for the celebrations students missed since Jennyhave Lemay the pandemic began. “Celebrations and rituals are so important in the lives of us all and we wanted to find a way to start this year by injecting some of that spirit into the beginning of school,” said Head of School Peter Lefkowicz, co-founder of The New School. Design teacher Jason Kofke helped plan the dance with Monique Nunnally, the school’s director of Community Engaged Learning. “Our prom was replete with all the awkward social anxiety and avoidance of strangers or intimidating relations that I knew from all my high school dances. It was beautiful and perfect and real. And somehow it was still fun,” Kofke said. “Fast forward only 48 hours later and the classes were intermingled, knew each other’s names, and were hanging out like they’d known At l a n t a I n t o w n Pa p e r. c o m
