Culture

Parent Life
Parents play a vital role in the life of the school, through prayer, support of their children, and through support of MHA. A prayer group meets weekly. As part of the MHA Parent Association, volunteers coordinate special events and teacher support programs to enrich the Mars Hill Academy experience. Parents can be found reading to students, presenting in the classrooms, providing hospitality, working in the library, or constructing a yearbook. MHA is committed to coming alongside parents to help parents realize God’s educational and spiritual goals for their children. Monthly Parent Association meetings offer knowledge and encouragement that assists parents in working with their children at home. Parent resources can be found in the library and through book sales throughout the year. Our monthly newsletter provides words of wisdom from various experts, and attendance at the annual Association of Classical and Christian Schools conference is encouraged and organized.

Please read this excerpt from the Foundational Documents for more information.
We desire that MHA would support both the family and the church in their respective missions under God’s providential hand, neither assuming too much nor doing too little for either. Parents will be encouraged to remain vitally engaged in their child’s education. In addition, we pray that God would grant us an atmosphere of love, forbearance, hard work, joy, and intellectual curiosity that would inspire and edify us while honoring Him. We will resist the temptation to gossip, think ill of one another, or to presume the worst, making sure to obey God’s word with regards to our personal relationships. Parents, not teachers, will bear the primary responsibility for remaining informed about their child’s progress at MHA. The staff will attempt to help parents in this endeavor through regular and helpful communication. Our school culture, academic and co-curricular programs, and personal relationships should imitate, as God gives us grace, the examples and teaching laid down in Holy Scripture and in the most truthful, good, and beautiful traditions of the Christian West.