There is still plenty of room for kids of all ages to have fun at summer camp this year at The New Classical Academy. At summer camp every day will be like Friday, full of big messy creative projects that moms just don't want to do for two kids at their own house! So go to the website and download your application now. Your kids will thank you for it and your house will be a whole lot neater...

The Sylva school is still full steam ahead and is set to open this fall, so if you are interested in either site please call to set up a visit. Our last day of school is June 1, so that is the last day this year to see us "in action."

The Board of Directors of The New Classical Academy has decided not to open the Azalea school this fall because we have been unable to secure a lease in a timely fashion.

If you're my age maybe you remember the Marlo Thomas album from the 70's called "Free to be You and Me." It was all about being yourself and included some pretty radical ideas (like boys wanting dolls)! Anyway the phrase came to me the other day at school as I thought about how our society still, thirty years later, wants everyone to fit into the same mold. High grades, good test scores and skill in sports are the qualities most revered by society. Meanwhile their peers expect children to be hip, well-dressed, and savvy about media and electronics. This is why I like our school. Kids are truly free to be themselves: interested in comics, off-beat music, horses, clogging and drama (to name a few). Our students are first and foremost themselves, and our program from individualized work to the choice of afternoon activities, strives to respect that selfhood and let it thrive.

The K-2 class transformed into a post office complete with PO Boxes for each student, a postmaster and scales for weighing letters. The big kids have all gotten into the act writing to and reading with the younger children.

As part of studying the French Revolution, students made guillotines and created timelines of the French Revolution which they presented in class.

In sad news, the school crawdad passed on to the other side. A funeral was held and speeches were given by Rabb Scott and Sean. Andy built the coffin to the crawdad's specific measurements, and he was buried in the school yard with much fanfare.