by Indy Classical School | Oct 28, 2026 | Classical Education Basics, Homeschooling
Most parents think they have 2 choices for school. Send the kids out the door at 7:45am five days a week, or keep them home and become the principal, the lunch lady, and the person who explains long division at 2pm on a Wednesday. A third option has been quietly...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 23, 2026 | Choosing a School, Classical Education Basics
Signs Your Child Might Thrive in a Classical School Setting Your 7 year old has just corrected the waiter about the origin of the word “spaghetti,” told your mother-in-law that dragons would lose to dinosaurs in a fair fight, and then spent 40 minutes in...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 20, 2026 | Choosing a School, Classical Education Basics, Indianapolis Local Guide
If you live in Indiana and have a kid approaching kindergarten, you’ve probably noticed that the school conversation has changed. A few years ago, “where will they go to school?” mostly meant “which address are we buying?” Now it can mean...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 14, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Somewhere in your house there is a child who can recite every word of a 3 minute pop song, including the ad libs, after hearing it exactly twice in the car. That same child cannot remember where they put their shoes, which are on their feet. Classical educators look...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 13, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Ask a random adult to put the Renaissance, the American Revolution, and the fall of Rome in order, and watch the squinting begin. Most of us learned history as a scattered pile of units, a little Egypt in 3rd grade, a state history project in 4th, the Civil War in...
by Indy Classical School | Oct 8, 2026 | Classical Education Basics
Somewhere around 10th grade, a lot of parents notice that their teenager has developed a remarkable talent for persuasion, usually deployed to extend a curfew by 45 minutes. The arguments are organized, there’s an appeal to fairness, and occasionally a statistic...
