{"id":22276,"date":"2022-05-07T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=22276"},"modified":"2022-05-07T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T15:22:34","slug":"victory-christian-academy-principal-mark-thomas-i-really-noticed-how-similar-it-was-to-a-public-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/05\/07\/victory-christian-academy-principal-mark-thomas-i-really-noticed-how-similar-it-was-to-a-public-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory Christian Academy Principal, Mark Thomas – I really noticed how similar it was to a public school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Principal Mark Thomas of Victory Christian Academy stated in an interview: “Well, to start off, what I knew about private school was mostly stereotypical. I assumed private schools were predominantly for wealthy, white families. After working at Victory for a few weeks, I really noticed how similar it was to a public school. The student body was representative of the diverse environment that is Polk County.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Thomas, Principal at VCA, was quoted in an article about the \u201cWOKE\u201d school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.reimaginedonline.org\/2022\/04\/what-are-we-doin-a-veteran-school-administrator-reflects-on-changing-lives-and-education-choice\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t speak for other schools, but at Victory, we have created a setting where it looks like a public school and functions similarly. Our school is accredited by the same agency that accredits public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have found that at Victory, both at the teaching and administrative levels, our school has total control over our curriculum, policies, and classroom management. Trying to figure out what students need is very simple if you are working directly with them. In Florida public schools, the school board and superintendents are often too far removed from the schools to know what they need individually. Instead, each school is treated virtually the same despite each one being different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since this is SIMILAR TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL, why do parents spend thousands of dollars a year on tuition? Shouldn\u2019t the school be free as a public school since it is being governed like one? Maybe the school does not have as much control as they think, since the majority of their tuition comes from CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS. It has once been said, that you are a slave to your debtor, follow the money trail, and you will find who you are enslaved by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Thomas quotes at the end of the article, \u201cOut of all the things that people have tried to do, the most positive thing I\u2019ve seen is this opportunity for choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Garden of Eden, we were presented with the opportunity of choice, and as humans, I don\u2019t think that choice was the most positive thing for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/04\/22\/victory-christian-academy-thanks-the-graduating-class-of-2021-for-guiding-the-class-of-2022%ef%bf%bc\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: reimaginED guest blogger Ashley Elliott is a former Florida Tax Credit Scholarship recipient from Lakeland, Florida, and a member of the 2019 cohort of the American Federation for Children\u2019s Future Leaders Fellowship Program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/victorylakeland.org\/ministries\/victory-christian-academy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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