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Ever feel like your favorite Disney princesses are stuck to a formulaic story? Ever want to take the reigns on those heroines and make them choose their own destiny? Ever feel like these princesses are too tame and are never put in enough situations that will challenge them? Ever feel like these heroines could never make it in "the real world" and that they don't have the tools or knowledge to stand a chance? Then come to see what the academy has in store for you...
Picture It If You Will: An Education Manifesto
"To all who come to this house of scholarship; welcome. Disney Academy is your academy. Here we look to memories of the past and the great minds of today to shape our youth with the hopes that they shall rise to the challenges and promise of the future. The Academy is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created this land of possible impossibilities... with the hope that it will be a source of enlightenment and inspiration to all the world. Let us all uphold the magic of education." -Walt Disney, Founder of WDATI
Mundus mea ostrea est
The World Is My Oyster!
Setting: Modern Day America
School Facade: 1313 Main Street, North Anaheim | The outside of the school is an example of Moorish Revival architecture. The academy sits on 55,000 sq-ft which includes a botanical garden, a small fitness gym, a commons ground, pool facilities, a concert hall, and a two story library with a state-of-the-art computer lab. Rising 12 glorious stories, this renovated property, over looking the Santa Ana River front, serves a little over 900 students in 85 large, lecture-hall size classrooms. The school features 60+ of the world's most distinguished and talented instructors who themselves have meet the rigorous requirements of the academy's standards and are prepared to pass that knowledge onto their students. The academy is a semi-public school on the papers but it is the most prestigious (thus, selective) school in the entire state. Students who attend are individually selected by the board of trustees that run the academy based on merit, natural talents, and scholarship not on monetary status. Thus, there is a very wide variety of students who attend WDATI. Walt Disney. himself, once said, "It would not be wise to judge a student on their outward appearance; everyone who attends the academy is there for a reason, even if that reason has yet to come into fruition."
School's Infrastructure: The history of the academy is nearly as old as the building itself. Walter Disney, who grew up in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood, dreamed of moving to North Anaheim and opening a school for talented youngsters from all economic backgrounds. He believed that education should not have a price-tag on it and thus worked to save enough money to open a small school in Chicago first. Then as it grew and the stock market began grow in his favor, he invested in buying up an old, rundown (supposedly haunted) hotel in North Anaheim. The price on the property was steep but Disney fell in love with the timeless architecture and envisioned a school with roots as deep and as old as time and yet housed the most state of the art learning facility in the entire city. With this vision, a handful of friends, family, and contributors, Disney began to build his dream school. The academy finished their final days of construction in the winter of 1954 and was finally opened to the public in 1955. A detailed history of the school's establishment can be relived in the WDATI documentary available in the library.
Current Dean: Roy Oliver | Current Principal: Bob Aiger
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Let us all uphold the magic of education.
-- Walt Disney, Founder of WDATI
Picture It If You Will: An Education Manifesto
"To all who come to this house of scholarship; welcome. Disney Academy is your academy. Here we look to memories of the past and the great minds of today to shape our youth with the hopes that they shall rise to the challenges and promise of the future. The Academy is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created this land of possible impossibilities... with the hope that it will be a source of enlightenment and inspiration to all the world. Let us all uphold the magic of education." -Walt Disney, Founder of WDATI
Mundus mea ostrea est
The World Is My Oyster!
Setting: Modern Day America
School Facade: 1313 Main Street, North Anaheim | The outside of the school is an example of Moorish Revival architecture. The academy sits on 55,000 sq-ft which includes a botanical garden, a small fitness gym, a commons ground, pool facilities, a concert hall, and a two story library with a state-of-the-art computer lab. Rising 12 glorious stories, this renovated property, over looking the Santa Ana River front, serves a little over 900 students in 85 large, lecture-hall size classrooms. The school features 60+ of the world's most distinguished and talented instructors who themselves have meet the rigorous requirements of the academy's standards and are prepared to pass that knowledge onto their students. The academy is a semi-public school on the papers but it is the most prestigious (thus, selective) school in the entire state. Students who attend are individually selected by the board of trustees that run the academy based on merit, natural talents, and scholarship not on monetary status. Thus, there is a very wide variety of students who attend WDATI. Walt Disney. himself, once said, "It would not be wise to judge a student on their outward appearance; everyone who attends the academy is there for a reason, even if that reason has yet to come into fruition."
School's Infrastructure: The history of the academy is nearly as old as the building itself. Walter Disney, who grew up in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood, dreamed of moving to North Anaheim and opening a school for talented youngsters from all economic backgrounds. He believed that education should not have a price-tag on it and thus worked to save enough money to open a small school in Chicago first. Then as it grew and the stock market began grow in his favor, he invested in buying up an old, rundown (supposedly haunted) hotel in North Anaheim. The price on the property was steep but Disney fell in love with the timeless architecture and envisioned a school with roots as deep and as old as time and yet housed the most state of the art learning facility in the entire city. With this vision, a handful of friends, family, and contributors, Disney began to build his dream school. The academy finished their final days of construction in the winter of 1954 and was finally opened to the public in 1955. A detailed history of the school's establishment can be relived in the WDATI documentary available in the library.
Current Dean: Roy Oliver | Current Principal: Bob Aiger
profile codes » rules & faq » available/taken characters » apply » ooc community
Let us all uphold the magic of education.
-- Walt Disney, Founder of WDATI