Thank You from Maria Lees, 2006
Hello. I just wanted to take a minute to write a note to everyone to tell of my gratitude to NCCL and its inhabitants! I recently went through a horrific car accident and just made it back to the land of the living. The response and caring from the staff was so wonderful and calming, knowing as I lay dormant & healing that my son was safe with the kind of people that I could trust to provide him daily with life skills that go beyond "a day at school." I had cards, flowers and visits from staff and offers to drive my son home 30 miles when we had to start using a taxi service. Someone wonderful and way too busy even offered to come down sooo far to our house and play with my kids all evening! Kids went nuts! Yes mom Yes....PLEASE??!!! But I had to say no, it was too generous. Aftercare also worked with us, compassionate and caring.
Finding this community of people and teachers was a godsend for my son too, who struggled mightily in his prior years at school and in general. His teachers have driven his mind into all these wonderful new areas where he is finding a passion for learning all new things. Our lives have been changed up by this NCCL place! Finding a school where learning to think and feel beyond the top layer of life is paramount to its goals is a hard thing to find; one sees too many who take life for granted and ignore its roots and more complex layers. The release from competition and the show of compassion and the applause for individuality set this school apart. I guess I wanted to say THANK U! but above all to reinforce to everyone how lucky we are to be here and have this NCCL place!
-Maria Lees (Zach & Zoe's mom)
