Kelsey Anspach
Managing Editor
From the ability to pursue a Senior project to being able to use phones in school and to go off campus, students here are allowed a wide range of freedoms that students at many other schools don’t have.
There are other privileges that are not so obvious and may be taken for granted by students. “We’re unique in that we’re one of the few schools that has open access to social media,” Library Department Chair Michelle Luhtala said. “It’s very unusual. There are lots of principals that would have said ‘No way are we allowing this.’ We’re not one of those places.”
These freedoms are not a recent development. “[Principal] Tony Pavia has continued a long, proud tradition of trusting kids to do the right thing at NCHS. We’ve rarely ever been disappointed,” Social Studies Department Chair Richard Webb said.
Students have been allowed these freedoms because of a prevailing trust between the administration and students. “Mr. Pavia lives by Lincoln’s dictum,” Mr. Webb said. “He assumes that kids will be guided by ‘the better angels of their nature.'”