Setting higher standards. Trying something new. Taking a risk—physical, intellectual or spiritual. Breaking through the near wall of present comfortableness. All these are part of the stretching necessary to become a more expansive self—and are at the center of how students experience Thacher. As an adult, you know that you have grown the most when you have been given real work and responsibility, when you have been asked to look beyond your own well-being or challenged to go beyond participation to real leadership. The belief that life is not about just showing up runs as the strong philosophical current connecting the curricular program with the extracurricular, academics with horses and camping, the arts with athletics. In every possible venue, at virtually every minute of the day, a Thacher student is grasping something totally new—or, if not holding it firmly in his or her hand, at least reaching for it. Does your child like to reach?