Overview
Inglenook offers a program called Outreach, which is completed on Wednesdays in lieu of traditional courses. The other four schooldays each have a double period to make up for Wednesday's lost time. In Outreach, the student is expected to volunteer in the community for three hours a week. They then relate this experience to one of their academic courses by doing a tie-in project which receives a mark included in the final course grade.
After the first semester, students can also perform an equivalent of Outreach, known as Inreach. This is still affiliated with a specific course, and a tie-in project is still completed, but instead of performing volunteer work the student can pursue an interest such as learning to paint, acquiring a new language, or writing a play.
Inglenook features an open-access kitchen, which is cleaned (along with dishes from the classrooms and student lounge) by two hoppers after classes each day. Hoppers are two students who are chosen for duty on any particular day, and as it's rotational, each student will only have to clean once per semester.
Teachers at Inglenook are overwhelmingly left-wing in their politics resulting in an environment where most lessons and discussions are heavily biased.
The school features a public art space named the "Inglenook Gallery". There is also a student lounge with ample furniture and books, and most of the classrooms contain couches.
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