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Article: Around Crownsville: 'Classic' education at Rockbridge Academy
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2005
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When other local schools opened in August, Rockbridge Academy
chose a more classical opening day. Classes started the day after
Labor Day with 310 students from about 191 families and representing
60 churches throughout the county.
In fact, the word classical best describes the school, located in
the education building of Baldwin Memorial United Methodist Church.
Since opening in 1994, Rockbridge has organized its program as a
"Trivium."
Headmaster Michael McKenna considers the Trivium along with the
school's Biblical world-life view Rockbridge's two distinguishing
factors.
The Trivium comes from ancient Greece. Starting with grammar in
the early grades, students learn to read, recall and ...