BCCS Lower School News Issue #4 June 2019 End of the Year Dance We had some interviews with four kids By Shannon Durant and Erin Tracey from each sixth grade advisory. This is what they had to say… Everyone knows about the fun Halloween Dance that the BCCS lower school Q and A for Students had in October but that was going to be the first and last dance of the year. Both sixth and Gavin Carey from Lake Forest 6, Ruth Reid fifth-grade students had a really great time but from BC 6, Camryn Coutts from Amherst 6, they also knew that there wasn’t going to be and Ronan Mitchell from Haverford 6 answered another event like this until next year. the following questions: Therefore, we as students think that there should be an end of the year dance for the Q1: How do you feel about leaving the hardworking fifth and sixth graders at the BCCS lower school and your teachers? BCCS lower school. This would be a great chance for students to spend time with friends Gavin: I feel sad because I’m leaving the before summer vacation starts. It would also be teachers. the perfect opportunity for the sixth graders because not all of the students will be going to Ruth: Sad because I’ve been here for a while the upper school next year. and got attached to the school and staff. Besides socializing with friends, this dance will be a great way to celebrate Camryn: It’s very sad because I love my everything the students and teachers have teachers. accomplished this year. We were thinking that this event could take place on June 14, the last Ronan: I’m a bit upset about leaving but I’m Friday Boston Collegiate has as a school for excited for what the future holds. the 2018-19 school year. We thought this would be a good time because it would leave Q2: What do you plan to do as a student at time to plan the dance and it is really close to the upper school moving forward? the beginning of summer vacation. If this isn’t possible, we would hope you keep this idea in Gavin: I plan to aim for first honor roll. mind for next year. Ruth: I plan to run for class president and do many elections and interviews. Camryn: I plan to create new relationships with new teachers. Ronan: I plan to get good grades and graduate high school. Continued on next page → BCCS Lower School News Issue #4 June 2019 Q3: Next year, if you are not moving to the Women in Sports upper school, what school are you going to? How does it make you feel? Or, if you By Kate Hagenbuch and Isabel Sheppeck are staying and your friends are leaving, There are many women that you might how does that make you feel? know only as great athletes but they are also great people. They have worked to make the Gavin: I am staying at BCCS but I am sad to let sports they play fair for all genders. They have go of a lot of close friends. single-handedly (sometimes multi-handedly) changed the way women and girls around the Ruth: Sad but happy because my friends are world participate in sports. moving away to another school. (BLS, BLA or One of those women is Venus Williams, some other charter school in Boston.) a professional tennis player. She was able to get equal prize money for women in the Ronan: Next year, I’m going to BLA and it Wimbledon tennis tournament. In 2007, in a makes me excited to have a new start. comment published in the London Times, she ​ ​ quoted roughly that the Wimbledon prize Q4: Do you think there should be one more money system isn’t based on the skill of event to spend time with your BCCS players and that it friends? Please explain your answer. diminishes all the years of work that Gavin: I do because you’re going to be having the women in the a fun time with your friends one last time at the tournament put in lower school. to be a part of this tour. Her quote Ruth: Yes because most people have been prompted a here for two years and are accustomed to the representative in Parliament to bring the issue way the school works and the staff and up, which resulted in the Prime Minister teachers. Many people will enjoy a enforcing equal pay in the tournament. get-together. Since the sixth graders have a Another team of women looking for Stepping Up ceremony, this could be one big equal pay is the U.S. Women’s National Team “stepping up” party/get-together for both (USWNT). The team filed a lawsuit against grades. U.S. Soccer for gender discrimination. The lawsuit hasn’t been successful yet because it is Camryn: Yes I do because I want to see my still continuing. Now, let’s look at the stats: friends one last time if they are not going to the 1. The lawsuit says that, “if each team upper school. ​ played 20 friendlies in a year and each team won all twenty friendlies, female Ronan: Yes I do because over the past two ​ ​ WNT players would earn a maximum of years, I’ve really made some good friends and $99,000 or $4,950 per game, while male I think there should be one more event for us to MNT players [in a similar situation] spend time together. BCCS Lower School News Issue #4 June 2019 would earn an average of $263,320 or Celebrating Teacher Inspiration $13,166 per game against the various levels of competition they would face By Aneesah Edwards, Izai Mehciz, and Jason [this is not going to happen, the men’s Chavez Mendez team is currently ranked 24 worldwide].” ​ Have you ever had questions about 2. The USWNT has won 3 out of 7 teachers that you never knew the answer to? Women’s World Cups. Well, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week in 3. They have won 4 Olympic gold medals. May, here are some answers to your 4. They have won eight CONCACAF gold questions. The teachers we asked were Ms. cups, a qualifying tournament for the Maitland, Ms. Gaine, Mr. Gilbert, Ms. Porter, World Cup. Mr. Eder, and Ms. Duggan. These are the 5. And they have won 10 Algarve cups, questions and their answers. one of the most well-respected and longest-running tournaments for women. The U.S. men can’t even begin to compare to this status. This is terrible pay discrimination. Do you think this is fair? A team facing a similar situation is the National Women’s Hockey Team. They are currently boycotting the North American Pro League. They have even better reasons to Q: What inspired you to become a teacher? boycott. There is no health insurance, and the Ms. Maitland: Growing up, my brother’s school team’s salaries can get as low as $2,000 per was hard so me and him usually had to go to season. Some teammates have to work full tutoring with a teacher. So, I would say my time jobs to play. These are horrible conditions brother and his tutoring teacher. that no one should have to work in. The boycott is also related to the closing of the only Ms. Gaine: I love working with children. My other North American women’s hockey league, own daughter and the love of education in me the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. They really inspired me to become a teacher. aren’t the best option either, though, because Mr. Gilbert: Growing up I always had fantastic they offered only a $100,000 of maximum ​ salary. The men’s team gets a grand maximum teachers. I went to an all-boys independent $79.5 million dollars. These women are school outside Philadelphia from grades 5-12 changing the world of hockey. and some of the adults that had the biggest These incredible women are impact in my life were my teachers and inspirational and motivating. Stand with them in coaches. I always had a good relationship with the fight for equality for women! In conclusion, education and all those special people who these women are important because they taught me, so I think I really enjoyed the idea of determine the future for girls and boys who having the exact same experience with aspire to be great athletes and who want students of my own. athletic equality. BCCS Lower School News Issue #4 June 2019 Ms. Porter: To be honest, I didn't know that I TFA a week later and moved to Houston, TX ​ wanted to be a teacher. I earned my degree in where I would teach for the next two years. biology and thought that I would work in a lab when I graduated. Mr. Eder: Yes, since I was in college. Mr. Eder: I love being around kids. Q: What is one of your favorite things about teaching? Ms. Duggan: I really love science and loved Ms. Maitland: Talking to new students would working with kids so it was a perfect. definitely be one of my favorite things about teaching because I get to learn new things. Q: Did you want to be a teacher from the beginning? Ms. Gaine: When students learn something Ms. Maitland: When I was 10-12 I wanted to new by me helping them learn.