Order System
The LCHS Order System is a student-organizational structure designed to manage LCHS junior-high students to achieve specific academic and student-life objectives. The system supplants the traditional student council governing structure by creating smaller integrated communities of students (~30 students per Order, ~15 from each grade) within the school, thus providing a framework for student governance allowing greater opportunity for the development of meaningful leadership.
There are six different Orders, all competing for the Purple Duck.
Purpose:
- To increase institutional and peer-to-peer support for each student
- To ensure individual care for each student by the order deans who will monitor and support the academic, social, moral, and behavioral growth
- To multiply occasions to build strong, healthy student relationships
- To develop leadership skills in every student
- To enhance recruitment of new students
Unique Outcomes:
- Enhanced school spirit
- More robust opportunities for junior-high students to be trained as leaders through hands-on service
- Stronger interpersonal relationship skills for each student
- More focused support internalizing character development
Order Leaders
About the Orders
The following crests are associated with each of the six LCHS Orders. Please click on each to learn more about the unique character of its associated Order.
The Legend of the Purple Duck
The Purple Duck
A Lesson on Ancient Mythological History
A long, long time ago in Erebor, the far, far away and lonely, mountainous land of the dragons, a magnificent golden egg was found. The legend does not reveal how, or by what glorious creature the egg was laid, but as the tale will tell, the egg clearly possessed a power beyond this world. The dragons, being very protective of their treasure, kept close watch over their golden prize.