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Writing By

Foss Tighe

  • SVS in the Era of COVID-19

    Remote Learning: When Governor Baker announced on April 29th that schools would remain closed in the state of Massachusetts through the end of the school […]

  • Is SVS Intentionally LGBTQ Friendly?

    A few months ago, my kids were planning a big sleepover of SVS students at our house. Besides the usual suspects, there was one new […]

  • Socrates and Mary Jones (SVS student) and the Law

    The great Greek historian and traveler Herodotus includes the following conversation with the queen of Persia in his histories. He is trying to explain how […]

  • Success Without a GPA

    Sudbury Valley nay-sayers often point to the lack of grades and high school grade point averages as one of the great risks of sending your […]

  • How do SVS students get into college?

    It started with the 12-year-old girl down the street who told my daughter she would never get into college. I am sure many of our […]

  • What does “learning” look like at SVS?

    This is a tough question. SVS lacks the more traditional ways of bench marking a child’s progress through school. There are no parent-teacher conferences, no […]

  • The Rule of Law as Holiday Gift

    During this holiday season, my daughter gave each of her SVS friends pillow cases. Using a fabric marker, each pillow case was emblazoned with a […]

  • Being Average is Not Normal

      Cori, my oldest daughter and Kali, one of her close friends at SVS, are having a good-humored debate about which one of them reads […]

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