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‘Focus on the Opportunities Gained’: Class of 2024 Graduates from NCHS
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For graduates of the New Canaan High School class of 2024, the coming years will be defined “by the choices you make from the plethora of opportunities that you have,” one of their teachers told them Wednesday morning. “And whenever choices are present, so is ‘opportunity cost’ ” according to NCHS social studies and economics teacher Mike Staffaroni.
“While my Econ students know this, opportunity cost is the value of what you give up once a decision is made,” Staffaroni told the class of ‘24 during his address at their graduation ceremony, held under comfortably warm and mostly sunny skies at a packed Dunning Field. He continued: “As psychologist Barry Schwartz has noted, we live in a time defined by a paradox of choice. On the one hand, we have more options than ever before. There are more clothing styles, streaming services, hit TV shows, TikTok streams, Instagram reels, (or for older people like me – Facebook reels), Snapchat Spotlights (I had to ask about that one), educational opportunities, job options, and everything else you can think of.
