By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 13, 2021
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, a group of Belmont Day school leaders met in my office for several hours to decide whether to make the call to close school due to the burgeoning pandemic. Ultimately, of course, we decided to. The plan, at the time, was to close campus for two weeks. We would have […]
By Carlos Hoyt, PhD LICSW, Director of Equity and Inclusion | March 05, 2021
“As of January 2019, Massachusetts had an estimated 18,471 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that total, 3,766 were family households, 917 were veterans, 480 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 2,370 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness. […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 26, 2021
As February quietly comes to a close and March beginslike a lion, as they sayit is exciting to consider longer days, warmer temperatures, more time outdoors, and a long-awaited vaccine. Beyond that, I am also excited, or perhaps, more precisely, moved by something far, far away: NASA’s successful landing of the Perseverance Rover on Mars […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 12, 2021
Maybe it’s the time of year. Mid-February often feels this way in schools. Perhaps it’s the relentlessness of this virus and the frustration thatfor all of the medical advances we hear about each dayour lived experience hasn’t changed in the ways we have hoped for. Maybe it’s cabin fever, the piles of snow amplifying that […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 04, 2021
Talk to any local sports fan, and they will quickly tell you that there is no middle ground on how one might view the departure of a beloved superstar athlete to another franchise. For those who remember the 2004 Red Sox, you are likely to remember the speedy and much-beloved center fielder for that team, […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | January 29, 2021
Prepare yourself, everyone. My best guess is that narratives about ‘all that we have lost’ and how things used to be will begin to dominate social media platforms, newscasts, and newspapers and pop up in the reminders on our smartphones in February. February 2020 was the last month, locally, when things still ‘felt normal.’ We […]
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