Admissions / Common Doubts / VIII of XI

Isn’t one teacher a risk? Wouldn’t a larger academy be safer?

The short answer: One teacher means nothing is lost between teachers, and the person you meet first is the person who teaches your child.

It is a fair question, and the instinct behind it is sound: when choosing something important, choose the option nobody would blame you for. A large academy feels safe for that reason.

But consider what a large academy means for a single student. A director meets you; a teacher you have not met takes the class; another takes the next level; and somewhere between them, what was noticed about your child in October is forgotten by March.

Here, the teacher who meets you in the first conversation teaches every class your child will take, from the first sentence to the AP exam. He knows what she struggled with two years ago. Each course is built to lead into the next, because the person who built it teaches the next one too.

That continuity has a record. Since 2015, many students have come to us in elementary school and stayed through high school, and it is these students above all who have won first places and Gold Medals in the international contests in Latin, classical humanities, and writing, and who have gone on to leading universities and liberal arts colleges in the United States and the United Kingdom. Some of them, one at a time →

The honest limit is time: one teacher can teach only so many classes. We manage it by recording every class, by keeping groups small, and by opening a course only when it can be taught properly.

And a small academy depends on families recommending it to one another, which is every reason to treat each family well.

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