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- Unique to Thacher is our Horse Program—designed to complement the learning that takes place in our classrooms with real-world experience and responsibility in our barns. All new students are required to learn to ride and care for a horse—ninth-graders for an entire year, transfer students for one trimester.
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Thacher’s Horse Program is about so much more than learning to ride. Tenacity, self-confidence, humility, patience, and so much more are gained as students face the challenge of a new riding technique or a stubborn horse and take full responsibility for the animal’s care.
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Walk on the Thacher campus and you’re bound to encounter a pretty unusual sight: Students saddling horses and heading out for an afternoon ride, dust trailing as they hit the Gymkhana Field or a nearby mountain trail. This is the Horse Program, one of the School’s most unique educational experiences—and one of its oldest traditions.
Oct 25, 2016 · W alk on the Thacher campus and you’re bound to encounter a pretty unusual sight: Students saddling horses and heading out for an afternoon ride, dust trailing as they hit the Gymkhana Field or a nearby mountain trail. This is the Horse Program, one of the School’s most unique educational experiences—and one of its oldest traditions.
Horse Program Requirement. Unique to Thacher is our Horse Program—designed to complement the learning that takes place in our classrooms with real-world experience and responsibility in our barns. All new students are required to learn to ride and care for a horse—ninth-graders for an entire year, transfer students for one trimester.
Thacher School Horse Program. Thacher’s Horse Program is about so much more than learning to ride. Tenacity, self-confidence, humility, patience, and so much more are gained as students face the challenge of a new riding technique or a stubborn horse and take full responsibility for the animal’s care.
The Thacher School is a private co-educational day and boarding school in Ojai, California. Founded in 1889 as a boys' school, it began admitting girls in 1977 and is California's oldest co-educational boarding school, as well as the oldest private boarding school west of the Mississippi River.
The most obviously unique aspect of Thacher are the horses. Every freshman is assigned a horse for the year. The freshman must then care for the horse as well as spending most days after school riding.
