Lake Braddock Secondary School - Lair Yearbook (Burke, VA)

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Table of Contents Introduction Student Life Organizations Drama Bruin OriginaJs LakeBraddock Facts.... (Trivia throughout the -«iv;-. iv- ' .4 -wr, V , V. , beginning introduction 3

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The Fairfax County School Board envi¬ sioned and formulated plans for a new school, Lake Braddock, in 1968. At this point in time the Glen Construction Company came into the picture. Un¬ der their instruction twenty sub-con¬ tractors were appointed to help with the building of our school. Our school was the result of the high population growth and many new sub¬ divisions being built in the,,area. The choice of constructing an ‘‘open school” was made by the School Board because the public and educa¬ tional responses to this concept had been enthusiastic. The groundwork began in October of 1971 for what was to be the predece- sor of a new and innovative concept in modern education—Lake Braddock Secondary School. Life was given to a unique institution in which the recent open-classroom theory of teaching re¬ placed the more traditional methods. Under his care, supervision, never end¬ ing interest, and after many months of staff and curriculum planning at Robinson Secondary School, Mr. John Alwood, the school’s principal, first in¬ troduced Lake Braddock to the com¬ munity in January of 1972.