We value and truly believe that the home-based education, a home-schooling education, is very, very valid and a valuable way to go about educating children.
We are a discipleship school, not an evangelistic school. For a student to enroll here, the parents and the kids both have to have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior.
Many of our students will tell you it's not an easy education. It's a quality, quality academic education.
Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,
We provide them opportunities to interact with their fellow students in a variety of ways, whether it's athletics, academic competitions, student groups.
We have several students who have come from other private schools because of the type of education we offer and also the fact we are much less expensive than many of the other schools in the area - sometimes as much as half the cost.
First is education through Christ ... character education.
We've had our eye on the Washington market for probably about two years. We wanted to come sooner, but because we had a competitor, we wanted to bring our best effort forward. . . . We wanted to make sure we had something really good versus something that was just okay.
Third, there has to be an at-home parent or guardian to oversee instruction of students when they are in their satellite classroom at home. If both parents work and there is not someone to oversee instruction, this type of schooling is not going to work for them.
It's a rare student below ninth grade that has the self responsibility and discipline to oversee their own instruction on days they are not here. Even then you might be pushing it.
It's set up just like a university. You could enroll in just one class or as a full-time student. You don't have to be a full-time student. That is a big change from many other schools (where) it's all or nothing.
In this system, parents are responsible for making sure students have their homework done and come to class prepared. Parents are called co-teachers,
For parents that like the concept of home schooling but don't want to take on the full responsibility with a child's education, this type of school is the perfect place to enable them to do both.
