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Why Shakespeare?

All the world’s a stage.”   Such beau­ti­ful words!  Shake­speare has many such phras­es that are encap­su­lat­ed in our hearts. Some­times, they are tricky to under­stand. One of the biggest draw­backs to study­ing the plays of the Bard is the lan­guage. Writ­ten in Eliz­a­bethan Eng­lish, it can some­times be intim­i­dat­ing and dif­fi­cult to deci­pher. I remem­ber attending […]

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Why Community?

As my chil­dren grew old­er and became inter­est­ed in dif­fer­ent extra cur­ric­u­la activ­i­ties, I found myself turn­ing into the “chauf­feur” mom.  You’ve all met her, or maybe you are her.  She is prob­a­bly one of the busiest moms you know. Every day of the week she has to stop what­ev­er she’s doing to dri­ve one,

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Why Parent Directed?

Part 3 of 3 : explain­ing the mis­sion of Scio Acad­e­my To equip fam­i­lies with the skills, knowl­edge, and con­fi­dence to pro­vide a God-Cen­tered, Home-Based, and Par­ent-Direct­ed edu­ca­tion   When a child is born, a per­son ceas­es to be mere­ly a man or a woman, but is trans­formed into a dad or a mom. With

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Why Home Based?

Part 2 of 3 : explain­ing the mis­sion of Scio Acad­e­my To equip fam­i­lies with the skills, knowl­edge, and con­fi­dence to pro­vide a God-Cen­tered, Home-Based, and Par­ent-Direct­ed edu­ca­tion   God called Adam and Eve to start the first fam­i­ly. He built them a home, and gave them pur­pose.  It is with­in our home that our

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Why God Centered?

Part 1 of 3 : explain­ing the mis­sion of Scio Acad­e­my To equip fam­i­lies with the skills, knowl­edge, and con­fi­dence to pro­vide a God-Cen­tered, Home-Based, and Par­ent-Direct­ed edu­ca­tion   Greeks believed that the spir­it was good, and the phys­i­cal world was bad.  They hypoth­e­sized about sci­ence but nev­er per­formed exper­i­ments. Romans believed that the gods

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