“Don’t get married!” This jarring imperative sentence was delivered in a half-jest during a faculty development week by the pastor of a parochial classical school I was contracted with during my six-year teaching career. As a mid-twenty-something at the time, I very much hoped, like many highly educated women, to find a life-long mate. I […]
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“Only a woman can teach girls what it means to be a woman…” (Sax, Girls on the Edge, p. 231) Shortly before I commenced my teaching career back in 2017, it was recommended that I peruse the writing of Leonard Sax, MD, Ph.D., a New York Times best-selling author whose work in researching and documenting
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What do classical and Christian schools overwhelmingly share in common with public schools? There isn’t much to distinguish us in our approach to time management and measurement. Intriguingly, our academic calendars are quite similar: thirty-six weeks, 180 days, with Monday through Friday schedules the norm for many locales. On the whole, we share a lengthy
