Elizabeth and Stephen Carr relocated to Charlotte with their three children amid the pandemic, which meant that in their first year as Country Day parents, they never set foot on campus.
That experience was followed by several leadership transitions. Yet, as Elizabeth, who is actively involved in the Parents’ Association wrote in an email to Dr. Kinsey, “We’ve never once doubted that our children are seen, known, and cared for. I’m not sure a parent can ask for much more than children who get out of the car happy in the morning and return happy at the end of the day, and this has been the case for our family.”
In the email, she shared this tender anecdote that epitomizes the way teachers “see” their students. “My dad died recently, and we are preparing for his funeral. Our daughter has been working with her advisor and LA/SS teacher Todd Wallace on the remarks she will offer at the funeral. What began with her asking him for poem suggestions evolved to him coaching her through writing something of her own over some early morning 1:1 sessions. That a teacher would so joyfully and tenderly come alongside a student, so early in the school year, and guide her processing and writing is a gift to our entire family—and to my dad’s legacy. And—that the distillation of her sentiments about my dad (“I always felt like I mattered to him, no matter how busy he was")—is even more notable given your own focus on this very important concept in the year ahead.”
Elizabeth CarrParentHow grateful we are that the kind of care we are receiving from Mr. Wallace is, in fact, not an anomaly but the norm of what we have, by and large, experienced at Charlotte Country Day.”