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CFS Journal A Parent's View of a Soccer Game One Tuesday afternoon I took my two younger children to watch Sky’s Middle School girls’ soccer game in the western suburbs. The vista was beautiful: at least three full-sized sports fields, scoreboards – clearly a school with a serious and competitive athletic program. Directly before us was the other girls’ team – approximately twenty girls dressed impeccably in crisp uniforms, almost all identical in height, each one the size of our tallest player. We watched in awe as the girls, one after the other, pounded the ball into the net with power and precision, on command from their coaches. Uh-oh. This was clearly not going to be a pretty sight. We were going to get crushed, pulverized… The game began, and hey, we did OK. We held our own. For five minutes, for ten minutes, we held our own, until I realized into fifteen, twenty minutes, that indeed, we were not holding our own. We were competing. We won the game 1-0.
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This game was a metaphor for what happens at CFS every day. Students learn the skills to win, but they learn much, much more. They learn about teamwork, scholarship together and individually, respect, self-empowerment, and the empowerment of others. They learn how to achieve your best with elegance, without putting others down while, in fact, bringing others up. They learn about the larger community, our interconnectedness, and one’s effect on our world. They achieve an exquisite self-awareness that fuels their education. By Heather Korostoff Murray
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