{"id":14126,"date":"2019-10-03T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=14126"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:46:04","slug":"a-special-bring-a-friend-day-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2019\/10\/03\/a-special-bring-a-friend-day-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Special Bring A Friend Day Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14128 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendWpstory-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Special Bring A Friend Day Experience From Nathan M. And Marcell S-C.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Has a friend ever asked, \u201cWhat makes MPA so special?\u201d Or perhaps you know a family who is \u201cSO MPA?\u201d Bring A Friend To MPA Day is a wonderful way to have their children experience firsthand what it is like to be student at Mounds Park Academy. Read on for fifth graders Nathan M. and Marcell S-C&#8217;s Bring A Friend To MPA Day experience! Marcell enrolled after having attended last year&#8217;s Bring A Friend To MPA Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathan, what made you want to bring Marcell for Bring A Friend To MPA Day?<\/strong><br \/>\nI wanted to hang out with Marcell and show him my school. We\u2019ve been friends since second grade. Before this year when Marcell wasn\u2019t at MPA, I wished he could have been going here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcell, how did going to Bring A Friend To MPA Day help you make your decision to come to MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nBecause Nathan went there, I knew about MPA and knew it was a good school, but then Bring A Friend Day was when I saw that MPA was really different than the other schools I used to go to. Probably the combination of meeting the teachers and meeting the other kids on Bring A Friend Day made me want to come to school at MPA with Nathan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>How was Bring A Friend To MPA Day when you guys did it?<\/strong><br \/>\nMarcell: I wished Bring A Friend Day was longer! It should be two days so the friends can experience all the classes on both A and B days. One thing that I remember really liking was P.E. class, where we played a fun game called poison ball. I was really excited to see all the cool stuff that Nathan and the other kids could do with their laptops too.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan: Even though I\u2019ve just been in Lower School and Middle School so far, I know the whole school really well, and I really wanted to show Marcell how big it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you say to someone thinking about bringing a friend for Bring A Friend To MPA Day?<\/strong><br \/>\nMarcell: Make sure they play Ga-Ga ball and 9 Square at recess with everyone. It\u2019s a great way to meet lots of other kids.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan: I\u2019d tell them that it\u2019s really important to show their friend around the school and to show off MPA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"next-steps row\">\r\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><a class=\"btn btn-block btn-gold\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/admission\/bring-a-friend-to-mpa-day.cfm\">register for Bring A Friend Day <span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right small\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has a friend ever asked, \u201cWhat makes MPA so special?\u201d Or perhaps you know a family who is \u201cSO MPA?\u201d Bring A Friend To MPA Day is a wonderful way to have their children experience firsthand what it is like to be student at Mounds Park Academy. Read on for fifth graders Nathan M. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,28,24,9,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-blog","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-upper-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14126"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14151,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions\/14151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}