Rocky Mountain Christian Academy

This review is for the pre-​k class. My family and I have moved around a lot this past few years and my son has been to four schools. His first school was not good because there were too many students for one teacher/​one aid to handle (24 students) so not much attention went to my son.
His class had TWO teachers (not one teacher and one aid…2 teachers) and only 13 students so we’re impressed. We thought our son would definitely get all the right attention where he can grow and learn. My son actually gotten worse as far as behavior, academics, and social skills. All the work done (class work and projects) were done by the teachers. When we had our first parent/​teacher conference, the teachers said that they never had a student who already knew how to read, write, know his colors, and shapes… they said they didn’t know how to challenge him. Then they focused on his behavior was disruptive. Well if a child is bored, not challenged, and not getting attention… what do you expect is going to happen?
If your child is smarter than the average this may not be a good fit because the teachers don’t possess «out-​of-​the-​box» thinking (or they’re lazy) to create a challenging learning environment. This was even more evident to us when we attended an in-​class play and the teachers weren’t even taking to our son even when he was asking them a question (our son has a loud voice so we heard him ask).
For $ 400+ a month for three half days per week… this felt more like a extremely expensive daycare.
Once the school year ended we went and found another school. Let’s just say that our son’s ONE teacher said the exact opposite of those TWO teachers at his conference. Again this review is only for the Pre-​K so I can’t speak about the rest of the school.

Amongst both school and home educators, Charlotte Mason’s methods and Classical Education have long been considered two different things. In fact, they should not be. Charlotte Mason deliberately looked back to classical educators such as Plato, Plutarch, Comenius, and Milton for her inspiration. She drew her ideas from the past and presented them to her contemporaries in a form that was easy to understand and implement. She wasn’t just a marginal Victorian teacher – she was a modern thinker whose ideas about education have their source in the classical past. Because the postmodern world that we live in finds its beginnings in the world she lived in, her message is still pertinent and timely, and needed even more sorely than when she first wrote. –Karen Glass

RMCA is transitioning to a Charlotte Mason approach with their curriculum. Their claim is that it is classical, but is actually very different in practice when compared to today’s classical charter schools. More of an exploratory/​discovery-​based approach. My children attended for 7+ years but found the new curriculum to not be a good fit for our family. Great teachers, and beautiful facilities.