Month: April 2015

Is Summer School for Me?

29 Apr 2015

In today's world, there is an ever-greater pressure for more. We see it in youth sports programs, a growing move toward year-round schooling, college entrance exam prep programs and everything in between. As a Classical Christian school seeking to prepare students for college and beyond, this is not a topic that we can afford to avoid. What should be our approach to offering summer school classes?  There are always more great books to read, more

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Getting to Know You

7 Apr 2015

Petro-Pavlosk Fortress from across the Neva Education is often about relationships.  Good teachers love their students, love their subjects, and most of all, love introducing their students to those who have been their own teachers.  And books give us all the opportunity to learn from "teachers" who have committed their thoughts to print.  This is where the WHA "Get to Know ..." series of elective classes comes from. Our first offering in this series was

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