ROADSIDE ACADEMY, A THOUGHTFUL ALTERNATIVE

A Child’s Greatest Asset, A Parent’s Greatest Gift:

A Trained and Disciplined Mind 

Is not this an age of family stress and parental distress? As public educational costs rise, the quality of instruction falls; as test scores fall, multicultural sensitivities rise; and as political correctness becomes the norm for curriculum selection, individual discernment and value judgment become relative.

Boards of Education, confronted with a union-protected intransigence, have opted for compromise over accountability. Caught between the rock of budgets that are eighty percent predetermined by binding arbitration and unfunded state mandate and the hard place of taxpayer discontent, these same boards are fully engaged in dealing with non-substantive, non-educational concerns.

Into such an environment Steve and Dale Thorpe established Roadside Academy as an alternative worthy of parental consideration. Established as a non-sectarian center of learning, Roadside is dedicated to fulfilling the mission which public schools once met so well: to train young minds to their fullest potential and to instill in each child the principles, disciplines and moral absolutes which once served our great nation so well.

All parents, all citizens, must seek to reinvigorate a public educational system which has lost its bearings, but one's school-aged youngsters should not be penalized by a public system resistant to change. Roadside, as an affordable alternative, is designed to meet the needs of those who might otherwise be shorted. Although modest in its beginnings, Roadside has delighted both parents and students alike and has made learning the exciting and enjoyable experience it should be. By their own account these youngsters attest that school has not been something painful to endure or something to resist, but an adventure—at once exciting, fun, and challenging!

What a miraculous, divinely-created instrument the human mind is, and when properly utilized and trained, its potential has no end. Think of your own child; might Roadside be the best investment you could make, the best gift you could possibly give?

                                                                                —John Lyman, Jr.