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Contact: Jenni Brockman Phone: 804-443-3357 Fax: 804-443-6781 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tappahannock (September 20, 2004) - Being involved in their child’s school is the best way that parents can say education is important to them, St. Margaret’s Head of School Margaret R. Broad told a back-to-school audience at Gloucester’s Ware Academy. 
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St. Margaret’s Head of School Margaret R. Broad speaks to an audience of parents, teachers and students at the Ware Academy convocation. The three bears symbolize the relationship between student, family and school.“There are so many ways to be involved, whether it is assisting with a field trip, cheering for a sports team or working on a fund-raiser,” she said. “It allows you to know your school better, to appreciate its goals and to support its efforts to achieve those goals—and it is the students who benefit.” Broad presented her remarks to parents, teachers and students at Ware’s first annual convocation. She used three hugging teddy bears to underscore her message for the multi-generational audience, noting that the largest bear could symbolize the school; the middle bear, the family; and the smallest bear, the student. “The bears remind us,” she said, “that we are joined together, bound by common goals and a desire to support each other.” As a member of the Virginia Association of Independent Schools’ Membership Committee, which visits and accredits schools like Ware, Broad also brought greetings from the 78 other independent schools in Virginia and 1,200 independent schools in the nation. The VAIS and its national counterpart provide resources, information and opportunities for schools to share their experiences. Ware Academy is a co-educational, 180-student day school for preschool through eighth grade. Its new headmaster, Thomas L. Thomas III, invited Broad to speak because she is the most senior of the independent school heads in the Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula area. Broad became head of St. Margaret’s in 1989 and currently serves as president of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools. |
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