THE STARKEY FORUM D.C.

Dane Cucinelli

“I started out at Ann Arbor Open, and then when Northside turned into Ann Arbor STEAM, I moved there. Both of them were K-8 schools, which provide kind of abnormal school experiences by most standards. I believe my mom told me a quote from back when I was in eighth grade trying to decide what I would do for high school. It wasn’t really a difficult decision, I know for me, but my mom told me that I said I want to go to Community because this is the only kind of schooling that I’ve ever really known. I think Community, especially given that I have experienced split enrolling to Huron as well for three out of the four years of high school, I kind of have a unique perspective there. I think that the freedom Community gives you is a make or break opportunity for a lot of people. Either you learn self discipline, or you don’t, and I think the vast majority of people learn pretty quickly that self-disciplining yourself into not skipping class and whatnot is not that hard, especially when you’re an underclassman. When you start getting into the end of your senior year, definitely you’ll notice for all the seniors, senioritis really starts setting in for many of them right around now. Last year I remember senioritis starting to be like the word of the day in my calculus class, which was mostly seniors, starting probably April, maybe early May.”

O.G.

Olivia Glynn

“My favorite memory at Community is any of the Forum Days. Recently, because of my schedule as a split-enrolled student, I don’t get to spend as much time in forum as I would like to. I’m able to stay at Community on forum days and spend time with everyone, so those hold a lot of nice memories for me. I’ve changed a great deal and at the same time I haven’t changed much at all. I finally cut my hair and started dressing the way I’d wanted to for years, and I was also able to improve upon my passions (art and writing) through classes at Community. I think mostly I’ve just grown more into who I am, and Community was a good environment for me to feel comfortable to do that.”