Please mind your manners and thank you for reading

Kelly Saiz
Editor-in-Chief

Maybe it’s my mother’s southern roots or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve lived in Ye Olde NC for the past eleven years, but I grew up with a plethora of books about manners, cotillion, and Walter Schalk’s Ballroom Dance Class (who didn’t love getting their feet stomped on or waltzing with their arch nemesis?). Chivalry might be dead, but I’m definitely not the only one in NCHS who thinks about manners.

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According to Bloomberg Businessweek’s study, America’s Richest Zip Codes 2011, New Canaan tops any other Connecticut town in terms of average household income. Ranked nineteenth nationally, 06840 boasts an average income of $277,250 and is closely followed by Darien in thirty-sixth place. But how much of that money is going straight into the pockets of high school students?