Testimonials
Significant.
I think that’s the feeling that came to me when I was asked to write this letter. I wanted it to be, first and foremost, significant to communicate something great. To fill this page with words that would leave you with a wow; because, I was there in 1980 when Diane started Banbury Cross Roads. It was my first school and perhaps the most important thing in my childhood, as something beyond the Banbury. I wish I could write down how important a good school is…but I think that fundamentally it is a thing to be experienced. I don’t think I can actually tell you what going to BCrS was like…but it was significant; for me, for the people that I was with, for my friends and family.
Choosing Banbury Crossroads is a good choice, because, I believe, that for Diane and the School, children exceed important and pass into treasured. I always felt valued as a student at BCS. It is rare to find an environment that treats children as adults in training, and not as lesser versions of adults. To treat a child as something that is important and something to be respected, unto itself, brings that something to be someone. Perhaps, even someone great. I loved going to that school mostly because of the environment which could be described as: loving, nurturing, open, outward-looking, and full of real life learning.
This letter is a pale end empty version of what I would like it to be because I cannot write down eight years of collected experience on a single page, or even a stack of pages and do it justice. I cannot let you know what it feels like to go to this school or to be in a long term relationship with it. I can say that it was significant for me, enough to drag me back across 3033 Km of dirt and I still treasure it for what it was…great.
Respectfully and with Great affection
Aaron A. Patella
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