2370 Hammock Blvd. • Coconut Creek FL 33063
(954) 330-3561
http://www.paideiaclassical.org/
If you want the best possible education for your children and are comfortable sending them to an Eastern Orthodox Christian school, you may want to consider Paideia Classical Academy.
Paideia Academy offers the following:
- Instruction in Ancient Greek and Latin
- Saxon Math. This curriculum encourages mastery. Most of each lesson focuses on review, meaning that students will encounter a topic multiple times and practice it repeatedly. Additionally, students scoring less than an A will be asked to correct their mistakes. Few things are as useless as passing math with a D-. This ensures that students will probably get a D- in the following material as well. Paideia Classical Academy circumvents that problem. Your child with graduate from PCA truly knowing math.
- There is a heavy emphasis on organic food. Students are taught nutrition and organic gardening. They will graduate with the knowledge needed to maintain their health. They will also be more likely to have healthy children themselves.
- There is daily prayer. Students are encouraged to memorize many of the Psalms. Aside from the religious benefit, this practice also trains the memory.
- Students are taught logic in middle school.
- The school's students are well-behaved and serious about learning. Thus, your child will be in an orderly environment conducive to learning.
I worked at Paideia Classical Academy full-time for one year.
ReplyDeleteI have been a teacher for 30 years and was excited about starting at Paideia, thinking that it was going to be organic, classical, and Christian... it turns out to have been none of those things.
The only green thing about it is a gardening club that meets after school once a week to work on a single planter box. Poor behavior by the students is often ignored by the staff.
Most importantly, the curriculum is incredibly lop-sided-especially at the middle and high school levels. High school students have 15 hours of language arts each week and only 5 hours of math, 2 hours of science, and 2 hours of history!
I felt that rather than being better prepared than the public school student, these students were actually worse off-especially at the high school level. It's a decent place for the elementary ages, but beyond that I would never send my child here. This school really needs to work on creating a decent and competitive curriculum for their older students.