MICA (P)107/09/2010
A Singapore American School community service publication
June 2011 Volume 13, Issue 8-10/11
SAS: A School of Place By Brent Mutsch, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools
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e began the 2010-11 school year in eager anticipation of the first day of school. On June 2, the year will officially come to a close for our students with another eagerly anticipated event, high school commencement. We will gather as a community to celebrate the academic and cocurricular achievements of each of the 267 seniors who make up the Class of 2011. Three members of the class have been part of our school community since joining preschool 15 years ago. Over the past 15 years students have joined this class every year, including 16 seniors who joined in the fall of 2010. Just as the successes, challenges and opportunities of the past nine months have defined the current school year,
the collective educational experiences that make up the past 15 years have shaped the academic careers of our seniors. As unique and different as these experiences have been, I’ve discovered in recent conversations with a number of upcoming graduates a strand that binds us together as a community. Regardless of the amount of time they have been at SAS, students speak with clarity in recognizing and acknowledging that our school has made a positive difference in their lives and has shaped how they see both the world and themselves. In recent years, I’ve found this perspective to hold true as well for many other students, parents, faculty and staff who have been members of the SAS community at one Continued on page 3