Upper School Annual Report 2021-2022

Thanks be to God for the blessing this past school year was for students, teachers, and parents also. We began the year with new Upper School staff who, with their wisdom and experience, took the 11th graders up to the next level. These students have gone from being challenged five years ago by a five paragraph essay to the newest challenge of their first fifteen to twenty page thesis paper this past spring. They have gone from graphing a line five years ago to graphing waves in Algebra 2. They have gone from botany five years ago to chemistry. They have gone from Latin to Spanish and even had a whole meal spoken in Spanish at a restaurant. They have been through all four cycles of history at CLC by reading classic books that enabled them to participate in the Great Conversation of significant topics every year. They have practiced their defense of the truth, goodness, and beauty of God in theology and in science and math and history and art. They acted in another memorable Shakespeare production. They sang solos and duets in music. I love watching them sing!

Even with the Lower School at Mars, they tried to keep fellowship going with the grammar school students through several planned assemblies, lunches and recesses. It is my understanding that they even improved their time running the mile in physical education. It was another year full of failure and success, sorrow and renewal, being forgiven and forgiving. They will be challenged this coming year with everything from pre-calculus and human anatomy to economics and apologetics. They will continue to be part of the Great Conversation with books such as City of God and Pensees.  Most important of all, they will continue to have their hearts and minds trained toward that which is worth loving. Personally, I want to thank you, parents,  for all your support, trust, faithfulness, and perseverance. You desired a Christian education for your children and because of you, it continues ever on.