Sanctity Walk for Right to Life

Yesterday we went to the Sanctity of Human Life Walk for Right to Life. All of the girls participated. Here are some pictures...

Ally, Kara, Eliza, Kelsey & Ana

On the walk...

Ally, Kara, Eliza, Kelsey, Ana

The girls

The baby booties represent every baby who was aborted in Columbus (over 1,000) in 2008 (the last numbers available)

We're in our first year of existence. The school was founded this year with the vision to educate and strengthen young men and women to be strong warriors for Jesus Christ through education. We believe in preparing them for life, in all areas of education and spirituality. Its really important to me that when the students leave Trinity, they leave with more knowledge than they came in with, but more that they felt prepared to go out into the world around them and stand strong for their personal belief system.

We are a non-traditional, non-denominational school, teach from a Christian worldview, and have chapel services once a week, usually on Fridays. We usually have an ordained minister (pastor of First Christian Church in Phenix City, Aubrey Cochran, who is also one of our teachers) give chapel service, or guest speakers (typically youth pastors from the area) who come and speak to the students. Right now we have 11 students in grades 9-11, and we will add 12th grade next year. We have a varied curriculum, drawing from Abeka, Alpha & Omega, and Apologia to the same math texts that students at Columbus High School use (I'm not the math teacher, so I don't remember the publisher!). Our health program comes from Purposeful Design Publications. Although we don't offer art or music currently, we plan (and hope) to add those things to our curriculum in the coming years. The students will have completed 28 credits upon graduation from Trinity; 4 years of English, History, Math, Science and Bible, 2 Foreign Language credits, 1.5 Health & Physical Education, we also have a Computer Technology tract for students who are interested.

Seniors at Trinity will complete a Senior Symposium, while Juniors take on a Junior Class Project. Our Bible classes for next year are offered on a semester basis - the first will be Apologetics and the second will be World Religions. These are subject to change providing interest & a qualified faculty member. The calendar for next year is extended to 175 days (see attached), and we also have a dress code that is going into effect for next school year. We currently do have a dress code in place, but we are revising the policy for next school year. The students are held to an honor code which governs them both on campus and outside of campus, including the social networking world.

The reason why I call us "non-traditional" is because we're a very laid back faculty, in a working environment. Our school is held in an office building in Phenix City. We primarily have class in individual offices and the conference room. We could be moving to a different facility for next school year depending on the number of students who we have enrolled. Our goal is to ultimately build a campus in the north Phenix City/Smiths Station/Salem area, but of course thats years away.

Tuition for next school year is $3,875, with registration fees ($50.00), book rental fees & lab fees. Those are projected to be $225, but this number is subject to change based on the required texts for next school year. We will be accepting payments through Paypal for next school year as well, or through personal checks. We have two payment options; 10 months or 12 months. Of course you may also pay in full.

Incoming students will take a placement exam to determine where they should be in certain areas (Math in particular), and will also go through an interview process (very simple, really just a "get to know you" deal with myself, Mr. Cochran and a member of our board). Most students who apply are accepted.

We operate similar to a college schedule - classes are set up on a two-day time frame for an hour and a half each. Monday/Wednesday is Math, Bible & Health.

We begin the day at 9am and end Monday-Thursday at 2:30 pm with an hour for lunch. We do not have a full kitchen/cafeteria, but we do have a microwave & refrigerator so most of the students bring their lunch or have off campus lunch priveledges.