Here are sample excerpts of emails I received from graduates of classical Christian schools where I served as headmaster.  Reports like these are the payoffs that make our investment in students worthwhile!

Mr. Chenettte,

I can't believe it was over a year ago that I graduated. Time flies.  As we are finishing mid-terms I have to admit two things: 1) that I'm enjoying it here, letting myself get away with not working quite as hard as I did in high school and trying to enjoy the social aspects a little more; and 2) that I feel really well prepared for college level work by what I learned at (our classical Christian school). I can't tell you how many times I've been in a lecture and compared what my professor was saying to what my teachers (at our school) said.  It's helped me decide what I believe and critique arguments for myself.  I hope that as I become more confident I can begin to share it with others and make them think rather than blindly accept what the professor says as fact. 

Excerpts from another graduate's letter:

Things are going well.  I am taking 15 credit hours currently. I find it hard to believe how much I learned and how much my education (at our classical Christian school) has helped me.  Last spring I took a lower level English composition course and my professor complimented me on one of my papers. I told her about the senior thesis paper I had to write my senior year and she commented that my writing reflected what I had done.

I am also taking a philosophy course this semester. We just finished studying pre-socratic philosophers and now we are studying Socrates and his contemporaries.  The other day my professor was trying to explain Plato's idea of forms.  The way he was trying to explain it was very confusing but because I had already studied this in (our school's) government class, I was able to understand the idea.

I just wanted to let you know how I was doing and how much my education at (our school) means and how much it has helped me even in just these few years after graduation.


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