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Warm Hands Warm Hearts

Our educators excel in wide-ranging areas of academic offerings to the students of Glenholme. And every teacher knows that there is more to learn than what the best textbooks can communicate.

Students learn about their peers. Not only their classmates and their roommates and their teammates, but about other boys and girls who are slightly older or slightly younger, who go to different schools, who live in very different environments than those they relate to. They know that there are other kids who don’t play in the snow because their hands are freezing; that other kids don’t have choices at their tables and walk away still hungry and wanting; that other kids have moms or dads a world away fighting in a war.

Our teachers and our students never ever forget that there are ways to help their peers. Always aware of the need and developing the ways to alleviate in some small way the adversity of others, staff and students work consistently to remember and act on behalf of those peers. We help because we can and because it is what we do.

In a minor Connecticut city some 20 miles from Glenholme is a school whose entire enrollment consists of students in need. Every year, the teachers and students of Section 5 implore all staff to contribute to their Warm Hands Warm Hearts program. A Christmas tree stands sentinel at the major doorway used by every employee, and on that tree individuals place hats and gloves and mittens and scarves, all a riot of color and size. Just before the holiday, the tree is undressed of its decorations and those of warm heart bear the gifts to ensure warm hands to a group of kids who will be a bit more snug and sheltered this winter.