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Gann Academy is a private, Jewish high school located in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1997 as 'The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston' the school changed names in 2002 (although continues to be referred to as 'New Jew') as it relocated into its new and current building at 333 Forest St, which is the third building the school has inhabited. The school's original location was on Turner Street in Waltham, adjacent to the campus of Brandeis University. Its second location was within a Fleet Bank building at the intersection Prospect and Main Streets in downtown Waltham. The new name of the school, officially 'Gann Academy: The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston,' comes from philanthropist Joseph Gann, who donated $5,000,000 to the school. Gann Academy recieved accreditation from New England Association of Schools & Colleges in the spring of 2004. Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Waltham is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. ... Generally, accreditation is the process by which a facility becomes officially certified as providing services of a reasonably good quality, so that the public can trust in the quality of its services. ...

Gann Academy was founded on the ideal of Jewish pluralism, a wide inclusion and acceptance of all Jewish denomonations, including (at least in theory) secular Judaism. The current headmaster of the school is Rabbi Daniel Lehmann, although the acting headmaster for this current school year (2005-2006) is Judith Pordes, as Rabbi Lehmann is on a sabbatical in Israel. The school has an enrollment of 291 students, and the current freshman class is the largest in the school's history, with 85 students. Pluralism is, in the general sense, the affirmation and acceptance of diversity. ... A sabbatical year is a prolonged hiatus, typically one year, in the career of an otherwise successful individual taken in order to fulfill some dream, e. ...

The school day begins at 8:10 and ends at 5:00 on Mondays and Tuesdays. On Thursdays the day ends at 5:10, ends at 4:00 on Wednesdays and either 1:45 or 2:30 on Friday, depending on the seasonal timing of Shabbat/daylight savings. In previous years the buses left the school at 6:00pm on Thursdays giving an extra hour for clubs to meet and for students who either stayed or were dependent on the buses to do homework or have free time. Due to the school's new e-mail server Firstclass's ability to offer clubs a private conference, the alloted time on Thursdays is not as important for clubs to communicate anymore. This change in schedule can be largely attributed to an editorial in the student's weekly newspaper, the Shevuon Hatichon, by a student calling for the extra hour to be eliminated - a position with widespread support throughout the student body. The editorial pointed out that students would rather go home after the school's long day, and the new location (as oppossed to the Fleet Bank Building) meant that more students stayed on campus for lunch as opposed to going off to eat and could thus more easily have meetings during the regular school hours. Shabbat (שבת shabbāt, rest Hebrew, or Shabbos in Ashkenazic pronunciation), is the weekly day of rest in Judaism. ...

Tuition for Gann Academy is $21,350 for the 2005-6 year. On top of this there is a bus fee (which ranges from $900 to $2300). Lunch in the school dining hall, the only option for most students who are not allowed off campus, can add up to $400 or more (one student went through $200 in approximately two months). Additional costs are the exploration week trips and programs (ranging from $125 to $2200), textbooks (approximately another $450-850 when purchased new), and the optional junior/senior Israel trip which costs $6000. Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning. ...

Hineini

The 2005 documentary Hineini is about a student at Gann Academy (known as The New Jewish High School at the time) and her relationship with the school as she tries to form a Gay-Straight Alliance. The documentry was premiered at the Boston Jewish Film Festival. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... YOU ALL NEED TO ACCEPT YOUR SEXUALITY...BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL..HAHA FREAK! please dont edit our page The pride flag, news articles, and flyers for social events on this high school bulletin board represent the diverse support and advocacy purposes that GSAs serve. ...

Post-Graduation

Almost all students coutinue to a 4-year college. Some students defer for a year and take a year in Israel to study or tour . Students from the Gann Academy have gone to Brown University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Cornell University, among many others. A fair number of students attend the University of Massachusetts. [1] They have also attended other colleges. Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Cornell University is a research university located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York. ... The University of Massachusetts (commonly called UMass) is the five-campus public university system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Gann Academy does not rank its students.

References

• 'New Film Peers Into the Teenage Jewish closet'[2]