This morning I was thinking about the reasons we require students to be involved in community service. High school educators across the nation have embraced community service as a vital step in our students’ development, and we have chosen to make service mandatory. But why? The reason that is often given is that it looks [...]

As the clock struck midnight on November 24, BLACK FRIDAY began, and devoted consumers moved rapidly from the sentimentality of Thanksgiving to the core business of the season. We hoped to get more stuff for less money to leave more money (or more margin on the credit card) for buying more stuff. Two days later [...]

Thoughts for Parents November 2011 Thankfulness is extraordinarily powerful. It blesses the one who is thankful, and it blesses the thankful person’s friends, family, and leaders. In fact, it is so powerful that it can bless anyone the thankful person meets. When a thankful person walks into a room, it changes everything. The problem with [...]

In a previous blog about grades, I warned that the love of good grades could be like the love of money, “the root of all kinds of evil” (I Timothy 6:10). I promoted the idea that our goal is to help students to love learning and not just focus on grades. I suggested that an overemphasis on [...]

We have been thinking a lot this year about how we teach, the real reasons for school, and about assignments, and grades, and tests. I’ve written this blog in order to capture some of the things that our faculty believes, especially about high school grades.

Read an important note from Mr. Gross.