I.P.

Ivy Prochaska

“I’m incredibly grateful for going to Community and the space that everyone here creates. All the teachers and the administration make you feel so good coming to school knowing that people actually care about you. I love the connection that we have with our teachers. I think going to Community has really helped me as I’ve grown up and come of age because [at Community] you are given this freedom at such a young age and what you do with that freedom can really teach you a lot about who you want to be as a person. Forum is an amazing class. Forum is the concentrated version of Community. It’s really what makes Community, Community. I love being able to have a school family whenever I need it. Some of my best memories at Community have been on Forum Day or Field Day. They’re such formative experiences that you wouldn’t get if we didn’t have forum. As an underclassmen especially and even a junior, looking up to upperclassmen and the seniors in my forum really shaped who I am today. I really looked up to them, and saw them as people I could always come to. As a senior in forum now, so much of what I do in forum and how I act is based upon the former seniors that I’ve seen. Seniors are such an integral part of forum and just showing up can be so impactful to the forum dynamic. With Community you’re going to get back what you put in. If you really try and put in effort to learn and build relationships, you’re going to get that back and it’s going to be really great. If you don’t put in that effort, obviously, it won’t be reciprocated. It’s really worth putting in that effort.”