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. 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 them realize God’s educational and spiritual goals for
their children. Monthly meetings offer knowledge and
encouragement that assist parents in the task of developing their children both spiritually and intellectually.
Parent resources can be found in the library, on our website 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.
