GREETINGS FROM SPARTAN LANE

Happy summer! Most of you have been enjoying your summer holidays for a week now, and as of today our faculty can join you. We have concluded our post-planning meetings, and now several of us begin to roll up our sleeves to focus all of our energy on the next academic year. In the meantime, I would like to thank the entire Athens Academy family for a positive end to this school year. No, it was not what any of us wanted. I can say that with confidence, but we did continue to teach and learn, and we managed a routine in the process. Parents joined in and helped Spartans of all ages sort out virtual meetings, asynchronous lessons and working from home. Teachers sorted out how to migrate from highly relational and in-person class time to distance learning in a matter of days, and continued to engage our students until the last bell tolled on May 21. Students maintained a sense of humor and continued to get their work done, albeit from afar and under surreal circumstances. I love the simple fact that our students continued to create, whether it was WWII videos, newspaper editions, a literary magazine, talent shows, projects for classes and more. Thank you one and all for pushing through to the end and delivering under very difficult circumstances. We should be proud of our community for how we pulled together and finished the academic year.   Read more.