Bobcat Blog

Last week, RCLS celebrated the retirements of four of its faculty and staff. These are people who have made RCLS what it is: a happy, healthy place to spend a childhood––or career, as the case may be. 

After last year’s “canceled” spring, we’re looking forward to all that is planned for the next eight weeks of school. Blue & White Night, Field Day, Graduations: these are treasured traditions at RCLS, and we are excited that they will go forward in some form in the coming weeks. We want our school parents to be able to anticipate (and attend) these events, so perhaps you’ll consider this your Guide to Spring at RCLS––and plan to join us for an event or two, on campus!

If there is one question I answer more than any other when I am introducing prospective families to RCLS, it is this:

Does RCLS offer accelerated classes?

Usually, the question is followed by explanation. “My son/daughter is in the gifted and talented program,” or “My son/daughter is taking an accelerated math class,” or “My son/daughter qualified to double-accelerate in math.”

The simple answer to the question is "yes," but there is more to it than that.

There are few tools so effective as narrative for shaping hearts and minds. As children read about the lives of others or they enter what one literary theorist calls the “laboratory of fiction,” they can test ideas and try on feelings, thereby developing understanding, admiration, or empathy for others. Ultimately, by the example of others and within the framework of the truth of Scripture, students learn how it is they, too, might be faithful men and women of courage, compassion, and accomplishment.