i n t h i s i s s u e : 5 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y J U B I L E E P H O T O S • 5 0 T H B I R T H DAY B A S H! • N O - WA S T E L U N C H E S
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VO LU M E X V I V, N U M B E R 2 A bi-weekly publication of The Post Oak School
POST Celebrating 50 years of The Post Oak School
O C TO B E R 18 , 2 013 Available online at www.postoakschool.org
T H E N E W C H I L DR E N by John Long, Head of School
The “new children” of Post Oak High School, grades 9 and 10, August 2013
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e are reprinting a speech given by a Montessori middle school student from Atlanta ten years ago. We first reprinted it in 2007 on the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first Montessori school. On that occasion
Montessori promised that children educated in a new way would become new children and that these new children would change the world. Since Post Oak is in the midst of its 50th anniversary, it seems a good occasion to reprint Caughlin Butler’s insightful and inspiring speech once again. continued on page 2