Starting high school could be a scary and nervous experience, but not for the incoming ninth-graders at Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere. At DRS’s annual get together for its new class, the 94 would-be freshmen took part in the school’s Yom Achdut event for the class of 2020.
Coming from more than 15 different elementary schools, next year’s DRS freshmen were selected from one of the largest pool of applicants in the school’s history. The boys heard from Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky, and General Studies principal, Dr. Hillel Broder, among other administrators at DRS.
The students took placement exams in algebra and the Hebrew language to determine the appropriate classes for next school year, and then were rewarded with ice cream sundaes. Then it was fun time. Moving to the gymnasium for a game of concentric circles, where sitting across from a person they didn’t know were prompted to discuss an array of different questions to become acquainted. This was done in intervals of five minutes as all the boys got to know each other.