On average, there were about ten students in each class. Kent School is always working to lower their student teacher ratio to make a more involved classroom discussion and experience. A common teaching method that Kent followed in the English and History department was the use of the Harkness table, a round table discussion in which the teacher was included, not leading. This method of teaching ensured that every student was participating in classroom discussion and no one was left to sit in the back corner of the room without being able to properly engage in the discussion. The faculty, for the most part, were phenomenal. Boarding school is so unique because students not only have classes with their teachers, but they live with them. Every dorm has two faculty members on each floor so students even have the opportunity for extra help late into the night. The school also incorporates conference periods twice a week where students have 45 minutes of free time in the academic day to meet with their teachers. If, on the off-chance that one could not coordinate a time to meet with a faculty member, Kent is a very email-friendly environment. Students and faculty members are constantly in email contact so questions can be posed that way as well. All of the different departments at Kent were all quite strong. Offering an extraordinarily vast array of courses with different difficulty levels, every student is guaranteed to find their nitch. Kent is absolutely not an "exam factory" like so many boarding schools are. In addition to focusing on course load and rigor, the Kent School prides itself on helping to develop well rounded, mature, self-sufficient students. Kent stays true to its school motto of "temperantia, fiducia, constantia" or "Self reliance, directness of purpose, simplicity of life." With mandatory afternoon sports or activity from 3:30-5:30 every day, students must partake in a minimum of two terms of afternoon interscholastic or intramural sports, the third term can be filled by a drama or arts afternoon activity. Although extracurricular activities were not mandatory, it was rare to find a kent student that wasn't a member of at least one club. A student's work load really depended on the courses they chose to take. A common phrase around campus is "Kent is what you make of it." Therefore, upperclassmen who chose to take four or five AP classes were looking at five hours of work (give or take depending on the night). Freshman rarely saw more work than the two hours allotted for study hall each night. As you got older, your work load increased drastically but so did your ability to handle the work and your time management skills.