The Purpose for Last Chance Academy

Last Chance Academy is here to give parents in our community an affordable alternative to public school education. There are great merits for taking the control of what your child is being taught, who is teaching, and whom their role models are. Last Chance Academy puts the content and responsibility of the child's education back in the hands of their parents. Through Last Chance Academy we are reaching out and influencing our community back to the conservative values and principles that made our nation great.

The focus of Last Chance Academy:

1) Instilling and reinforcing traditional family values. 2) Quality education from a Christian perspective. 3) Country school setting providing one on one education. 4) Interaction between all ages rather than the typical public school setting. Contrary to the public school system, the teachers and curriculum of the Academy build on a theistic philosophic foundation. Students learn to see life from God's point of view. Their personal relationship with God and their personal responsibilities to family, church, and community are of primary concern.

Other Reasons for Private Schooling:

1) Safety & Protection. Dangers come in many and varied ways in school settings, especially in the public schools. a) Physical dangers. b) Negative Peer Influences. We adopt the values of those we associate with on a frequent basis. c) Addictions. d) Curriculum Influences. Many public school children are forced to adopt public liberal politics, alternative gay lifestyles, acceptance of promiscuity and abortions. Secular systems leave God out, while teaching philosophies and theories contrary to God (humanism, relativism & lack of absolutes, evolution, etc.). In many public school systems there is graphic sex education to your child, in a form that leaves out all morality and often encourages sexual activity.

2) A Christian Education. Subjects are taught from our nation’s conservative Christian worldview while our children’s faith is reinforced and strengthened. Adding God’s perspective to all study also helps to teach true wisdom and to put more focus on godly character and actions.

3) Family Benefits. Christian schooling offers a tremendous benefit of family togetherness. Close friendships develop and are maintained. There is a real cohesive impact on the whole family. Older children learn to help with the younger children, even helping with their schooling at times. There is a bridging of the ages that occurs. Contrast this with what often happens when your children first go off to school - they decide their age peers are their real friends and don’t want to have much to do with their younger brothers and sisters.

4) Quality of Education. The public schools are taking a lot of criticism for doing a poor job in truly providing a quality education. Of course not all public schools are the same and some children in a school receive a much better education than others (often through gifted classes or special teacher attention). The beauty of both home and Christian schooling puts the parents in direct control over the quality of education. One-on-one tutoring results in more truly learned in much less time than a large classroom situation. The root problem with the public schools is that, though the public schools are "free" (except for our tax dollars) and convenient, they entirely exclude God. God is entirely removed from history, knowledge and life. Many of the textbooks and teachers preach a godless moral relativism. God and believing Christians are often mocked and the Bible is treated as fairy tales or or with as much believability as Greek Mythology. A few teachers will even purposefully try to turn children away from their parents’ beliefs and values - trying to "enlighten" them beyond the ignorance of their parents. Sadly, these teachers may have more time and opportunity to influence your child than you do. We must remember that education is ALWAYS religious. The very attempt to remove religion from education merely impresses it with another religion, such as that of secular humanism. Timothy Dwight, President of Yale University between 1795-1817 is quoted as saying, "to commit our children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the the wolves".

The Bible makes it clear that the parent is responsible for their child’s learning experience. "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deut 6:6-7 (KJV)

"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Eph 6:4 (KJV)

"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Cor 10:5 (KJV)