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Hello and Welcome to Dayspring Academy/High School
Website.
There is a lot of information on these pages to help direct you into home
education. Please read over them including the enrollment handbook for
particular info on DSA.
WHO WE ARE
DaySpring Academy/High School is a church school
in Alabama offering a family-based educational program for grades K-12. (Alabama
Code Section 16-28-1) We believe in the right of parents to make ALL the
educational choices for their children. We support and encourage parents to
actively take responsibility for the education of their children.
We
encourage and promote Family-Based Learning as a time-honored way to ensure that
children learn at their level taking into consideration their maturity levels
and individual abilities. The system itself has not part in setting goals for
your child in any way.
AND WHY IS THAT?
Because contrary to a society's thinking ANY and ALL Grade Level
information is simply a myth. There is no such thing as 5th grade math or 6th
grade health or 2nd grade spelling or 11th grade history. Each system and often
each school can decide what is the teaching goals and how to go about it. Home
educators believe it only harms children when used as the only method of
teaching and gauging learning. Using a 5th grade math book is for guiding the
parent in sequential information but in no way is it etched in stone to be
taught only in the 5th grade. (Same for all other grade level subjects.)
WHAT DO WE SUGGEST?
Instead, we encourage parents to use a
broad spectrum of materials -- from traditional books to software to hands-on
activities to field trips to simply letting a child direct their own learning.
READ!! READ MORE!! Conversations!! WALK and TALK and discuss LIFE!!! These
things alone will encourage a child who has had difficulty in the system in
rediscovering LEARNING (Which has nothing to do with education!!)
Each
child's learning is specific to them to their age, to their maturity levels and
to their particular life at the time -- not to a system or a series of
goals.
We are radical in our stand on family-based education. We do not
apologize for that. We do not apologize for supporting parents in all areas of
family life. We want children to succeed and parents to find their kids again.
Life should revolve around the family NOT the school bus or school lunch or
school homework!!
Our main mantra: to help parents come out of the
government-run, taxpayer-funded "schools" -- and to help the families heal from
the labels used against them and the abuses of this "system". To FREE parents
from A system that has chained them and their kids to arbitrary and very often
hurtful policies.
AND SO
We strongly support the abolishment of compulsory
attendance in a system that doesn't work and produces children who dislike
learning. We do not apologize for that. Not now. Not in the future. Please look
over the information about DSA to find out if our school will fit your needs. If
there is something you want to discuss prior to enrolling, feel free to contact
me. Please READ all guidelines, policies and stands on ALL aspects of home
education BEFORE enrolling with us. Be sure you agree with DSA on all levels and
aspects. Be sure you are READY to take complete responsibility for the education
of YOUR CHILD!!!
Donna Mitchell
Ph# (256) 353 2592
Fax 256 309 5679
Decatur
Al
Email: dayspringacademy@att.net
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