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FROM THE PRINCIPAL This handbook contains important and useful information about the procedures and practices of the senior school and I urge all parents and students to read through it, especially as this edition has been significantly amended from last year’s, most notably in the sections on assessment, report cards, conferences, and homework. This is especially important for students, because “I didn’t know it was in the handbook” does not constitute an acceptable defense in times of trouble! We have included the “At a Glance” section on page 9, which provides some of the most important basic information for parents. You can find an overview of the senior school on our website, www.isdedu.de. If you have any suggestions to improve the usefulness of this handbook, please contact me or Mr. Campbell. To the parents: If, while you are here, you hear anything particularly shocking, startling, juicy, or hard-to-believe about the senior school, it is almost certainly not true. ISD, like many small communities, has a very active, interesting, but highly inaccurate rumor mill. Fiction is often more interesting than real life, so sometimes, even against your better judgment, you may be tempted to heed the rumor mill. Please resist the temptation, and feel free to speak to me or Mr. Campbell at any time to check the degree of truth in any rumors you hear. The students’ education is supported by the tripod of student, school and parent effort, and it is in the students’ best interests that we all cooperate constructively. If, during the year, you have questions or problems arise, please follow the advice given in the “Communications” section two pages further on. To the students: Here are some free tips, based on many years of experience, on how to get on well with your teachers and help to maintain a positive climate in the senior school: • Be friendly – say “hello” and smile as you meet them throughout the day. • Cooperate: you have a common goal – to be successful and happy where you work. • Don’t disrupt classes. Disruption amounts to the theft of time and resources from your classmates. • Avoid confrontation – if you have something contentious to discuss with a teacher, arrange to do it privately. That way, neither of you has to play to the crowd. • Participate – your classmates learn at least as much from you as they do from the teacher. 4
Finally, some advice on becoming “international” from Takako Miura, who graduated from here in 1998. “…international” is a hard word to define. Does it mean having friends from different countries? Or does it mean being bilingual? Both elements are important factors but I believe there is more to it than that. To me a person who has the ability to express his or her opinion without hesitation, but at the same time has the patience to listen respectfully to another, especially someone from a different culture, is international. This seems an easy task to accomplish when described in words, but it is actually very hard because the feeling of respect must come from the heart. This is why an international school cannot make all of the students international, because we must have the will to have such a capacity…We must remember that we have to make internationalism happen; it doesn’t just automatically happen to us.” I wish you all a happy, successful, and cooperative year. Michael Coffey, Principal. 5
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