Posted on 09/13/2021 8:59:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
These highly skilled parents came together to not just solve their own kids' education needs but offer a high-quality education to families in their glorious Colorado mountain town.
Merit Academy of Woodland Park, Colorado, opened on Aug. 23 in a buoyant ceremony featuring American flags and a teenage rider riding a dun horse while waving the school flag.
The new public school went from idea to reality in just one year, opening K-8 with plans to grow into high school. As a classical school, it offers a low-screen, high-relationship environment and a focus on creative and critical thinking through careful attention to classic works and traditional approaches to math and science. These are things parents wanted that weren’t available through the Woodland Park School District, which like many in the nation has become computer-centered over the last several years.
“Our mentors said, ‘You’re crazy, you can’t get this done in a year.’ We said, ‘Oh yeah, watch us,'” said Merit Academy founding board member John Dill, a retired Air Force Space Command lieutenant colonel who now works as a U.S. military contractor.
It surely has much to do with the school’s founding board. Its five members also include the wife of a couple who have started five rock-climbing gyms, a therapist father of five who treats PTSD, the wife in a couple of software developers who have also started their own companies, and the wife of a married pair of former Air Force judge assistant generals (JAGs) who now work in other legal posts.
Dill and his wife are so committed to the concept of a great public school accessible to all in their community that they stopped homeschooling their twin eighth-grade daughters for it. So did others on their board, some hired as Merit teachers, and some who have enrolled their kids. The school offers Friday classes and other programming to homeschoolers as part-time students.
Homeschooling was working perfectly well for his family, Dill said, they just felt they could do more than take care of their own education needs — they could also help others. As patriots, they needed to.
“I’m a rural kid from the mountains of Maine looking at the rural kids in the mountains of Colorado and saying, ‘This isn’t right, they need to be educated too,'” Dill said. “If our nation is ever to get better, we need better schools.”
If it is working the left will find a mole to get in there and sue them out of success
Second sentence. Shows that it will graduate a bunch of Hitler Youths. Where will they learn about all 57 genders, bondage and discipline as a basis for interpersonal relationships and how to sufficiently hate Orange Man?
Yup. Sounds like they're acting way to White.
Merit, I thought that was racist?
“Impossible” is just a state of mind.
Most Americans are so spoiled they think just about everything is “impossible”.
I have the perfect “Karen detector” to make sure none of those busybodies is around....
Light up a cigar.
Anyone who starts screaming hysterically at you is the Karen.
;-)
Exactly what I was thinking. Also if the school doesn’t ‘teach the nonsense that other public schools do li,e crt blm material, gay curriculum etc, the fed gov will likely try to shut it down too,or deny graduates accreditation or something.
I hope they succeed, but they are fighting a very evil leftist agenda where liberal just aren’t happy unless they are making good people’s lives miserable
That's the problem, right there.
These parents want "a mountain of cash" (i.e. taxpayer dollars) for their "public school."
For decades, homeschoolers have run co-ops, some with hundreds of students. Co-ops are put together within a year, too. But, the parents (not taxpayers) pay for co-ops themselves.
How in the world do you interpret that from that sentence?
classic works ...... Could that mean that the kids will read books like Catcher in the Rye, The Old Man and the Sea, and any other books that many of us have read growing up, before the Left declared them all phobic and every “ist” they could think of?
traditional approaches to math and science .... Could it mean that they’ll learn math the old school way? The way we all do math instead of putting numbers in boxes. Stuff like adding a number, carrying the one, etc.
Love it.
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Either that or Polis, or his designee, will swoop in and find some violations, licensing issues to shut them down. Can’t have kids today learning the three R’s the way we used to.
I hope they were smart enough to put cameras everywhere, especially in the offices, so if someone from the school has to meet with a student, they somehow don’t get accused of doing something they shouldn’t have been doing.
Don’t underestimate the Left to use kids to achieve their goal. With Kavanaugh, that woman appeared to have the sense of a 7 year old.
Maybe that’s what this is and Pullman doesn’t know the difference. It’s the Federalist and quite frankly, they kind of suck.
My comment was so over the top that either a true progressive made it or else it was positively dripping with sarcasm. Hint: I am not a progressive.
Just use ABecka's curriculum and get a good education. Have a little Saxxon math on the side and you've got a better education than 90% of America. If Zuckerberg taught my child, I would have to beat it everyday just to keep it from being a moron.
The Left doesn’t consider what they do to be “politics”.
10-4
I hope the school produces better and more knowledgeable writers than the author. Judge assistant general, oh boy! How about Judge Advocate General.
“former Air Force judge assistant generals (JAGs) who now work in other legal posts.”
That would be “judge advocates” (JAGs). Prolly don’t matter to nobody but me...
I’ll second your motion on using proper titles.
lolz, no kidding. Where will they be able to take classes on transgenderism and fisting? OMG! I am literally shaking!!!!
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