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Marcelinsb's avatar

I wonder if there is any movement within local public schools to implement the classical model for K-12. I would imagine it would be a nice selling point for smaller school districts.

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Ashley's avatar

Thank you for the work you’re doing, Carol. I am glad Great Hearts is an option for Arizona families. We might end up there. (It’s currently #4 on our list behind two long-shot private schools and homeschooling.) You sold us on the trivium, western cannon, moral clarity, high expectations, paper & pencil, the logical approach to history. Feels like GH doesn’t leave room for intellectual laziness or academic dishonesty. I also admire how GH makes literature magical. Turning the lunchroom into a winter wonderland and making students enter through fur coats just like Narnia!! I would have loved it! But I already went to elementary school. I’ve got two rowdy, redheaded cowboys heading into kindergarten. They learn through play. They need to move their bodies. All for rigorous academics, disciple and poetry memorization, but can’t Susan Wise Bauer and Peter Gray both be a little right? And the no Halloween thing really bums me out.

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