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Austin Preparatory School

Austin Preparatory School, located in Reading, Massachusetts, is an independent Catholic prep school rooted in the Augustinian tradition. Serving students in grades 6 through 12, Austin Prep has cultivated a close-knit learning community since its founding in 1961. Guided by its mission to inspire hearts to unite, minds to inquire, and hands to serve, the school challenges students through a rigorous college preparatory program that includes honors and Advanced Placement courses, personalized instruction, and intentionally small classes. An Austin Prep education is preparation for the journey of life. Beyond academics, the school’s unwritten curriculum – the lived expression of veritas, unitas, and caritas (truth, unity, and love) – forms the heart of its mission. “At Austin Prep, we are on a journey that is life-changing and important,” says Head of School James Hickey, Ph.D. “Our patron, St. Augustine, embarked on a journey for the truth. At our core is an institution on the same journey, committed to exemplary teaching and learning.” Serving grades 6–12 under one roof allows this leading prep school to guide students through every stage of development—academic, social, emotional, physical, and spiritual. Community stands at the center of this experience, nurturing belonging and inspiring students to lead lives of purpose. Austin Prep athletics teams, competing in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC), are recognized among the best north of Boston, reflecting the same drive and integrity found in the classroom. Nearly every graduate continues on to a four-year college, prepared not only for success in higher education but for a meaningful life shaped by faith, friendship, and service.

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Reading

Massachusetts

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Although Reading is a friendly, welcoming, close-knit community, some people on the outside of town view it differently. Patch searched UrbanDictionary.com to see what others were posting about Reading. Urban Dictionary is an online dictionary of slang words and phrases written by the site's visitors.  Its visitors may submit definitions without registering, but they must provide a valid e-mail address to facilitate the submission process. Although they may seem offensive, satire is used in almost all of the definitions on the site. Here are excerpts about the Town of Reading posted on <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reading%2C+ma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UrbanDictionary.com</a>: Home of the 2008 Super 8 Champions, the reading rockets are the only public school to hold that title A nice middle class town just about 20 mins. north of boston in middlesex county where everybody knows everybody and people are way to obsessed with school sports. 90% of the neighborhoods in the town are nice with the exception of the apartment complex on main street and **** near the train depot. Kids usually drive around on a friday night in their dads bmw or merecedes looking for something to do.  The most boring, **** town in all of Massachusetts. An utter joke and complete fail of a suburb. <ul> </ul>

Although Reading is a friendly, welcoming, close-knit community, some people on the outside of town view it differently.

Patch searched UrbanDictionary.com to see what others were posting about Reading. Urban Dictionary is an online dictionary of slang words and phrases written by the site’s visitors.  Its visitors may submit definitions without registering, but they must provide a valid e-mail address to facilitate the submission process.

Although they may seem offensive, satire is used in almost all of the definitions on the site. Here are excerpts about the Town of Reading posted on <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=reading%2C+ma" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UrbanDictionary.com</a>:

Home of the 2008 Super 8 Champions, the reading rockets are the only public school to hold that title A nice middle class town just about 20 mins. north of boston in middlesex county where everybody knows everybody and people are way to obsessed with school sports. 90% of the neighborhoods in the town are nice with the exception of the apartment complex on main street and **** near the train depot. Kids usually drive around on a friday night in their dads bmw or merecedes looking for something to do.

The most boring, **** town in all of Massachusetts. An utter joke and complete fail of a suburb. <ul> </ul>

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