facetext_care=<b><font color="#CCCCCC">Neil Gerald:</font></b> Well, the way they've got this divided into smaller groups with what they call DL, which come from D.L. Moody and are the small - I think a maximum of 7 kids to an adult - groups that they have, and which the student life program is administered. My son has had two different DLs. Both of them have been top-notch people. Well respected by the kids, and just great mentors, you know you couldn't ask for more. I can't speak to every DL on campus, but I know that my son has had two, and I couldn't have hand picked them any better. They were great people. He's had a great experience with them, and I think they are the kind of people that I want my son to be around. And they also have student leaders at the school, which are senior students who are chosen for their leadership, chosen by the faculty and by the previous set of student leaders, and that also adds another dimension of student mentors to the mix of who the kids have as mentors. Not just adults, but some students that live right on the floor, right with them, that they can interact with. So I think they've thought it out pretty well in terms of having people to mentor. And then, of course, kids are pretty active, and if they are involved in whatever, whether it be music or sports, you know they've got other adults, the coaches as well as teachers that they are interacting with throughout the course of the rest of the day.<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#CCCCCC">Anne Robinson: </font></b> Well, first I can say that every teacher that both of my sons have had - almost without exception - have been really warm, wonderful human beings as well as good teachers. When my older son Peter first came, I was concerned about what living in the dorm would be like, and what problems might arise without having mom there, and all that sort of thing. And I can remember saying to his dorm head, how many children in this dorm and how many adults to take care of them? Fearing the number was going to be really not enough adults to watch these kids. She said, well, there are 27 boys in this dorm, and there are six adults, who either live here, three of them full time, or have extended hours here during the week. And I said to her, my heavens, six. That's a lot. Why so many. And she said, well, we're a bit concerned always, that if you only have two or three, there might be one boy left without someone he feels really connected to. So we have a lot of them, so we are sure no one is left in that position. And that truly impressed me, particularly coming from a large school. I think NMH is very concerned that it does not act like a large school, in the kind of personal relationships that it has with its students and its parents.<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><b><font color="#CCCCCC">Sheila Morse: </font></b>It was a little bit of a concern for me because of my experience in the 60s as a student here. I felt like adults were kind of authority figures, far out somebody that I could respect but not really connect with on an intimate basis. My son has coaches that care about him, he has got - within the first or second week of his first year here he and I met with the Dean of Students over some issue that had come up for him. She was fabulous; she connected with him on a regular basis after that. His DL, his advisors, know who he is and they connect with me. I'm in e-mail contact with them if there is an issue. Clearly, his dorm head is there. Other people that he does work study with. He is on an easy one-to-one, almost collegial relationship with his teachers. He had a math teacher last term that he really liked, and we went by that math teacher today, and Josh just said, hi, Tim, how are you doing? And he tells me that he stops by and chats with him a lot. And my other kid's high school, they don't have anything to do with the teachers. So I think - just knowing that these people are real people and resources adds an extra dimension to their ability to relate, and to their relationships and I think to their success as people.