Dear Springhouse community, I am Jeret Phelps, I am a 19-year-old senior student, and I am very grateful to our community at Springhouse for many reasons. Since my first time at Springhouse, the community has provided me with a safe, open, and loving environment. This fruitful environment has hel...

  Dear Springhouse community, It’s dawn as I unlock the door and enter Springhouse. I take in the quietness, the clean, orderly rooms which will soon be filled with the noise and bustle- the excitement of a new day, as parents and children arrive.  I make my way up the stairs to collect the van k...

  Dear Springhouse community, I am a grandparent of a Springhouse student as well as a Springhouse Partner.  You would think having two grandchildren graduate and one still attending would be reason enough to be a Partner, but it’s much more than that to me. I was bullied several times in public ...

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. Memory rescues experience from total disappearance…It is astonishing how faithful experience actually is; how it never vanishes completely. Experience leaves deep traces in us. It is surprising that years after something has happened t...

Dear Springhouse community, What brought me to Springhouse was my 14 year old son Skyelar who refused to participate in any way during his 8th grade year in the New York public school system. He wasn’t a trouble maker, he just refused to conform to a system that he didn’t believe had his best int...

Dear Springhouse community, I hope this letter finds you well. The whole Springhouse staff showed up to do work projects with my husband and I on our farm this past weekend. I am excited to tell you more about this shared work day experiment and what I am learning from it.  A few months ago, I as...