1. The following principles are idea for a middle-high school experience:
 Outside-the-school-site culture-building experiences before school begins each
year.
 Memorization of the times tables, states, capitals, presidents, 100 classical themes,
and a creed.
 Mastery of reading and math skills required for advancement at each grade level (no
social promotion)
 All students independently read at least ten novels, at their grade level, annually.
 All students meet physical fitness goals annually
 Opportunity to attend Life Experience Lessons while in Middle School to
Williamsburg VA, Northern California, Utah Canyons, and Washington
DC/Philadelphia/New York.
 Participation in weekly Sing-Alongs where a common batch of songs are learned by
all community members.
 Opportunities for students to participate in Religious Release opportunities where
they could practice their faith during school hours on identified occasions.
 A “no mess” policy where students are taught that all amorous relationships should
be saved until high school. Parents or their designees were required to personally
“sign-out” all students after school until 11th
grade.
 Strong communication with parents through monthly (small group) or quarterly
(schoolwide) meetings and opportunities for parents to talk to and school leadership
in their own language.
 Mandatory after-school catch up or enrichment programs for all student who did not
participate in alternative programs after school.
 Strict uniform and grooming policies including no earrings for boys and no makeup.
Prior to high school graduation, all students should be expected to have:
 Have been accepted to at least two 4-year-degree Universities
 Have participated in the Junior College Practice for University Program (at a
community college)
 Have selected a vocational path if they did not plan to directly matriculate to a
University.
 Visited at least 10 colleges or trade schools and filled in at least 5 scholarship
applications
 Have created a financial plan for their decade following high school
 Scored at a high-school completion skills level on objective reading and writing
exams.
 Mastered a second language beyond English (foreign language or musical
instrument)
 Been eligible to apply for College Experience Lessons to the Northern, Eastern, and
Southern (including a tour of US Civil Rights Movement sites) College Loops at the
end of their 9th
, 10th
,and 11th
grade years.