Answers to common questions regarding our curriculum, policies, and student life.
For all of the courses at the academy, the lessons, assignments, testing and grading are done by the teaching staff at the academy.
As parents, there are three primary requirements:
- Study Space: Providing a good space at home for the Mo/We/Fr time periods when students should be doing a decent amount of work each day.
- Disciplinary Support: Supporting the administration with potential discipline issues. Since time in the building is limited, traditional school discipline options like detention do not make much sense and so we need the parents to be able to back up the administration in helping with potential disciplinary situations.
- Academic Completion: The academy should be viewed as a support to the education you want to provide your child. You can and are encouraged to align the possible offerings at the academy with opportunities that would be most beneficial to your family and child. Please view our page regarding your role as the primary educator.
The deposit is collected as a way to improve the overall experience and management of the building. The main reasons for the deposit follow:
- Parental Transparency: Without deposits, it is very difficult to let other parents know who will be attending.
- Management: Deposits give us confidence in knowing whether we need to add additional teaching staff or courses.
If you are considering attending, it is better to make the deposit with your conditions than to wait and see what others decide. Make Your Deposit
The deposit will be refunded if we end up being unable to meet certain conditions that you can provide to us along with your deposit.
For example,
- We would love our daughter to attend, but she wants at least a couple of girls in her classes.
- Our son is ready for physics and we would need that taught at the academy.
If you are unsure about whether your conditions will be refundable, let us know using one of the contact options prior to placing the deposit and we will confirm if your conditions are refundable.
Our electronics stay in the office all day and if a parent needs to contact their child they need to call or text administration. This will even include the graphing calculators when not in an appropriate class.
We will have additional adults on campus during the free time periods of Lunch & Recess to ensure that the students are always supervised and that campus remains a positive environment for all.
Study halls will be proctored by administration. Administration will help make sure the students have appropriate study skills, self discipline and address any other possible executive functioning needs.
Yes, for all of the courses taken through the academy, a simple transcript will be available to the student & parent to make the process of putting together a full high school transcript as simple as possible. A sample transcript can be found in our information about supporting parents as primary educators.
Not all students can or want to take a full schedule with us and to homeschool.
The three most common reasons:
- Older students to take some community college courses but still be able to spend time with their friends on campus.
- Entering students to take a light schedule to be introduced to the difficulty of meeting deadlines and a college prep level schedule.
- Some alternative advanced skill development requires the afternoon timeslot.