OUR PURPOSE
Kootenai Classical Academy is a tuition-free charter school dedicated to educating well-rounded students with what is timeless, fundamental, and best in human thought, including arts, math, science, history, and language.
We believe learning should be exciting, fun, and important, and that kids want to learn and to excel in a school they love.
We want our students to be self-governing, educated, honest citizens, not just employees. The jobs students train for today may not exist ten or twenty years from now. Jobs do not make the human mind; the human mind makes jobs. So, let’s work on the minds of young people first, and they will build our economy.
OUR MISSION
Kootenai Classical Academy will be a K-12 public, open-enrollment, tuition-free charter school. KCA will follow an American classical model whose mission is:
To train the minds and improve the hearts of young people through a classical, content-rich education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue in an orderly and disciplined, yet dynamic, environment.
Kootenai Classical Academy admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic origin.
Is A Classical Education Relevant Today?
A classical education teaches young people the best: the best that has been thought, said, done, and discovered over the course of our long Western and American heritage.
These are not just old books we are teaching. What we are really doing in teaching young people the classics is teaching new dogs old tricks.
Math has not changed much in the last couple of hundred, or even thousand, years. Are we better at geometry than Euclid? How about language? English has been around for a while. Have we gone beyond Shakespeare, Milton, Jane Austen, Benjamin Franklin, or Abraham Lincoln in how we use it?