Goals
Summit's main goal is to have everyone try their hardest and to prepare everyone for college. To help with this, Summit has implemented many innovative practices to further this goal. One thing is the small class size, with only 100 students and 25 per class, allowing the teachers to know all the students and know how to help them out. The next is mentor time. Every day for the last 10 minutes, students see their mentor. For all four years the students are at Summit, they get the same mentor and mentor group students. This allows students to be more open to their mentor and tell them what's going on with their lives to better help them succeed. The last two are MARS ("Mandatory Academic Revision Session") and MASH ("Mandatory After-school Study Hall"). Both of these are ways to help the student if they are not doing as well as they should. MASH is received if a student does not complete a homework assignment; that student then must spend 30 minutes after school to complete the homework assignment. This allows the student to catch up and to keep his/her grade up. MARS is received if the student receives a failing grade on an mastery assignment or in a subject. MARS helps the student catch up on his/her grade in order to pass the class. MARS takes place during intersession and the goal is to revise anything to receive full credit.
The Summit Preparatory staff also encourage six primary core traits: respect, responsibility, courage, compassion, integrity, and curiosity. These aspects are assessed in each student periodically throughout his or her high school career.
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Famous quotes containing the word goals:
“I think that any woman who sets goals for herself and takes her own life seriously and moves to achieve the goals that she wants as a person in her own right is a feminist.”
—Frances Kuehn (b. 1943)
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)
“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.”
—Philip K. Howard, U.S. lawyer. The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America, pp. 186-87, Random House (1994)