More About Our Philosophy

In the wide view, our secular culture is disintegrating. We must help our children understand their core identity: who they are, children of God, called into existence by God, in the context of a living tradition, in a particular time and a particular place, with a particular mission to serve Him. Reason alone, no matter how well formed, is not of foremost use in facing the unprecedented identity crisis under which many of our youth are staggering.

The hybrid educational structure provides families two learning settings for their children, both of which many parents see as crucially formative. First, the home is preserved as the primary place in a child’s life, and parents remain their children's first educators, as God intended them to be. Secondly, the hybrid structure provides children the classroom learning experience, where they are formed in habits of sociability, attention, and diligence in a communal setting with their peers, and where as students they are challenged to meet behavioral, institutional, and academic standards of excellence. The hybrid educational structure consistently combines the benefits of both home and classroom as places of learning.

The hybrid model’s structure acknowledges two truths. The first truth is that parents are the primary educators of their children. The second truth is that children can benefit greatly from regular experience in an ordered classroom of their peers, run by a dedicated teacher committed to forming their hearts and minds with a classical education.

The hybrid model of schooling unites these two truths. In the hybrid model, formal schooling does not compete with the God-appointed, primary role which the child’s family has in his or her life. In fact, the hybrid model succeeds because parents remain the primary educators of their children: teaching them the Faith, reading to them good and great stories, and helping them master at home the foundational skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic introduced to them in the classroom.

In that sense it is the educational experience at home that the classroom experience supplements, not the reverse.