Applications
may be downloaded from this web site. Students are accepted on a first
come, first served basis. There is a $50 per student
nonrefundable application fee which is to be submitted with the
application.
When
your child is accepted into the program, Heritage will send a contract
to you for your signature. When you return the contract you will submit
the registration fee of $250 ($350 if you applied it after May 15).
This fee covers core books and materials required during the school
year. If a student withdraws after acceptance, registration fees will
be forfeited.
For
students enrolling for the 2010-2011 academic year, the annual tuition
is $1,980 payable in nine installments of $220 per month. Tuition is
due on the day of the first class of each month from September through
May, unless other arrangements are made with Heritage. If a student
withdraws or is expelled from the program, tuition for the year is
still due as described in the enrollment contract. After the enrollment
of the first child in a family, tuition for any additional children in
the same family is discounted by $405 to $1,575 per year (or $45 per
month, $175 a month for nine months).
Your Legal Obligations
Heritage
instructors are tutors. Under the law, you are still your student's
teacher. Therefore, enrollment in Heritage does not release you from
your obligation to file a Declaration of Intent to pursue a home study
course, nor does it excuse you from submitting attendance records to
your county's school system. You may click on the following link
to get the forms you need:
http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/web-homeschool.nsf/pages/DownloadableForms
These
forms allow you to fill out the required fields on the screen before
printing. You can fill in the info ONCE, print the attendance
form, copy it 10 times and just fill in the days...
Parental Participation
Parents
are expected to attend class from time to time. This will be
established as a rotation so that no one is required to attend too
frequently.
Why are we instituting this policy?
We
live in a very litigious society. Since we want Heritage to be around
for a long time to come, we want to protect Heritage from frivolous,
unwarranted lawsuits. This has not been a problem to date for Heritage,
but similar programs have had some problems. As home school parents you
have made many sacrifices and invested a great deal in your child's
education. We do not want for you to lose Heritage because of an
unwarranted lawsuit. By always having a parent present, there will be
two adult witnesses to anything that takes place in class.
An
added benefit to this policy is that you, as parent, will see classes
from time to time. This will give you a better idea of what goes
on in class, and help you to better support your student.
Discipline and Dress Code
Like
education itself, a child's discipline is the responsibility of his
parents. Heritage Classical Study Center, however, will discipline, as
needed, the students placed in its charge in loco parentis.
A student who is willfully disobedient or consistently disruptive to
the class will be referred to his parents. Failure to improve may
result in expulsion.
School
dress will be khaki slacks or shorts (with belts) for boys and khaki
slacks, skirts, or shorts for girls. All students will wear approved
white or blue shirts purchased from Buckhead Uniforms
with Heritage logos applied by Buckhead Uniforms. Though parents
may choose to purchase khaki pants or shorts from Buckhead Uniforms, it
is not required that you purchase them there. White or navy blue
sweaters may be worn in cold weather. Shoe color and style are left to
the parents' discretion.
In all cases we wish
for students to be modestly dressed. Therefore, please remember
when specifying shirt size for polo shirts to request a size that will
not be too tight. Also, it is preferred that no student wear
distracting jewelry. This is, of course, a subjective matter, but an
example might be girls wearing very large hoop earrings.
The
dress code is not intended to suggest that a student with a tight shirt
or oversized earrings is somehow unspiritual. Rather, it is
intended to minimize the many distractions that students already
experience in their studies so that they may focus as much as possible
on their academic work.
Annual holidays
No
classes will be held on Labor Day, but there is usually an adjustment
for the Monday 8/7 and high school classes, which will meet on the
Friday before Labor Day in order to stay on schedule. No classes
will be held during Thanksgiving week or the week between Christmas and
New Year's Day. Please refer to the academic calendar for more details.
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