It's a small, intimate community school.
That does not mean, however, old boyfriends, intimate gossip, school, or anything else that you usually talk about.
But "Titan schools" are part of the answer, he says – not all parents want their children to go to small, intimate primary schools.
The most recent was a million-dollar intervention by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, begun in 2001, which turned each of Manual's three floors into an intimate mini-school, with its own principal.
Its drinks menu is flawless and its seating only policy makes it feel intimate and old school.
And courts have long involved themselves in the intimate details of school financing and in the administration of prisons.
I hadn't even learned how to use tampons until well into high school; intimate, gritty encounters with my bloody vaginal canal had never been on my bucket list.
Negative family experiences influence the development of the brain, limiting the ability to cope with everyday and intimate relationships in school, work, family and social life, and leading to anxiety, depression, personality disorders, substance abuse, violence and serious mental illness.
His most intimate friend during his school days was Friedrich Adler, an internationalist, who shot Prime Minister Stürgkh in 1916 as a protest against the war.
At the start of his Bach concert at the Juilliard School on Tuesday night the remarkable organist Paul Jacobs gave an informative and charming spoken introduction to the audience that packed the school's intimate Paul Hall.
