Classical Education
Challenged Education
Education for “Challenged” Kids at the School of Choice
Thirty per cent of our state’s students drop out. Even if your child is not one of them, he or she
may have trouble relating to group classes offered by large, impersonal, unimaginative and
forcibly secular bureaucracies. Students who can’t “Sit still and conform!” to bureaucratic
education may begin by fidgeting but end by disrupting class, cutting class or even turning to
drugs and gangs. Such students are not welcome even in smaller private school classes as they
may drag scores down, so they are forced to keep shifting ground. Sometimes the solution is
not giving more money for larger buildings and more administrators. These students may just
need a mentor to listen to and guide them, a creative method to motivate them, choice of learning
materials to develop their interests, and expertise in subject disciplines to take them forward?
Let us be the lifesaver to these students!
• We understand ADHD and “learning disabilities.”
We understand ADHD, learning disabilities and behavioral problems as reactions to bureaucratic
methods. Instead of sticking students in big, “age appropriate” classes geared more towards
socialization than creativity and academic progress, we interview students to find out their
specific needs, interests, challenges and abilities. Government ISP’s might just try to make the
student into the group person he is not. We see that a student might, for instance, love free
reading in science fiction but hate foreign languages. We can use sci fi readings to show them
the importance of understanding other cultures and languages. Another student might prefer
games and pictorial learning methods; we can help them create a new WWII game that makes
use of knowledge of weaponry and diplomacy. We are “student-centered” educators, not
“teacher-centered”, “test-centered,” or “state-centered”.
• Honoring your child’s individuality.
Let us preserve your child’s individuality as we give him or her a career. We welcome you to
come by to develop a free “Independent Study Program” geared specifically to your child that
takes the parent’s desires and the student’s career goals clearly into mind. Because many
students do not expect to create curricula, we offer varied, pre-prepared, curricula popular to
many students which meet U of California/CSU standards. But our teachers expect these
curricula to evolve individually as students find themselves. As in Oxford education, the key
element of instruction is one-on-one relationships. But we then offer group discussions,
monitored study halls, field trips and social life to complete the educational experience and
develop leadership. Students are independent scholars mastering their world through projects,
but they are not socially deprived. Let us find hope together.
