Students
Tower Hill students participate in a wide variety of activities which include Band, Choir, drama/technical theatre and sports such as cross country, football, soccer, volleyball, and their nationally acclaimed field hockey and girls tennis team.
The field hockey team has won 18 state championships, which is tied with most in the nation out of any high school field hockey program.
Every Spring, near the end of the school year, Tower Hill students from Grades 1-8 participate in "Field Day," a competition between the Students and the Teachers. The event was created by first headmaster, Dr. John Davis Skilton, as a substitute for a graduation ceremony (since there was no graduating class) in the first year of the school's existence. The division of the two teams began in 1922. Students are placed onto a team, Green or White, when they arrive at Tower Hill based on first family history (all members of the same family must be on the same team), then last name match, hair color, and then by numbers. Students remain on the same team every year. Events include the hula hoop races, the jump-roping races, speed-stacking contests, the "Carry The Colors" relay race, and the Tower Tug (Tug o' War). In addition to the standard events including all students, each grade level has a "dash"— a foot race for which students must qualify; the top three finishers earn points for their teams.
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“We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.”
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