{"id":15,"date":"2018-08-21T13:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growingconcern.org.prv01.nsource.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2018-08-30T01:55:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:55:14","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>A Brief History of the School<\/h1>\n<p class=\"BodyText\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-155 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=400&amp;h=292\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=400&amp;h=292 400w, https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=800&amp;h=584 800w, https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=150&amp;h=110 150w, https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=300&amp;h=219 300w, https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=768&amp;h=561 768w\" alt=\"2018-07-30 15.21.51\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" data-attachment-id=\"155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.wordpress.com\/2018-07-30-15-21-51\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=400&amp;h=292\" data-orig-size=\"2260,1651\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1532964111&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2018-07-30 15.21.51\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=400&amp;h=292?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/growingconcerneducation.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/08\/2018-07-30-15-21-51.jpg?w=400&amp;h=292?w=1024\" \/>More than forty years ago a group of like-minded parents and educators discussed ideas for a better way to educate their children.\u00a0 They desired a holistic approach, agreeing on the importance of not only academic but emotional and social growth as well.\u00a0 The Growing Concern Private Montessori School was born out of these meetings.\u00a0 A space was located and rented in the Jackson Township Municipal Building, and the school officially opened its doors to the public in September of 1978.\u00a0 Barbara and David Gumpper along with Deborah Forrester were instrumental in the early success of the school.\u00a0 For ten years the Growing Concern continued to grow at its original location.\u00a0 In 1988 the doors to a beautiful newly-built school were opened, offering spacious classrooms and an idyllic location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than forty years ago a group of like-minded parents and educators discussed ideas for a better way to educate their children.  Learn more here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","with-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growingconcern.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}