Education
Southwick has four schools that serve the towns of Southwick, Granville and Tolland, all headed by Superintendent John D. Barry, Ed.D. The Southwick-Tolland Early Childhood Center serves Southwick and Tolland's preschoolers. The Woodland Elementary School serves Southwick and Tolland's kindergarten through fourth grade students. The Powder Mill Middle School serves Southwick and Tolland's fifth through eight graders. The Southwick-Tolland Regional High School serves Southwick, Tolland, and Granville's ninth through twelfth graders. In late 2011, the towns of Southwick, Granville and Tolland voted to admit Granville into the Southwick Tolland Regional School District. A vote in May 2012 in Southwick approved a $62M school renovation and construction project that is slated to begin in 2013.
Read more about this topic: Southwick, Massachusetts
Famous quotes containing the word education:
“If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war?—not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)