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You obviously don't know squat about Christian schools.


Classical, Christian Education: Higher SAT Scores Than All Other School Types “Without Even Trying” (dominionschool.com) 1-17-20 


Classical, Christian Education: Higher SAT Scores Than All Other School Types “Without Even Trying”


Posted by Tom Owens on Jan 17, 2020 10:00:00 AM


Yet, in following the wisdom of the ancients in our approach, the results speak for themselves. Member schools of the Association of Christian & Classical Schools (ACCS) produce students whose SAT scores are, on average, 325 points higher than public schools, 191 points higher than conventional religious schools, and 138 points higher than secular private high schools. ...


Why Classical Education Produces The Highest SAT Scores


The answer is simple: our curriculum broadens students’ minds better than any alternative. The SAT seeks to measure students’ reasoning ability. Classical education teaches students how to think, not simply what to think. In summary, the skills tested on the SAT are exactly the reasoning skills taught best by a classical curriculum and desired by selective colleges in their students.


Students who read ancient masters like Herodotus easily master SAT Reading passages. Students who have rigorously studied the rules of formal logic don’t get tripped up by trick SAT math questions. Students who have mastered the highly technical Latin language have a deeper understanding of English grammar and easily solve SAT writing problems. ...


In this chart, we see several things. First, we notice the substandard performance of public schools in preparing students for college. Second, we observe that independent schools achieve superior outcomes to public schools. ...


Conventional school curriculums simply do not challenge students verbally. Classical schools, by contrast, typically read high school level texts in junior high, and read college-level texts by high school. ...


ACCS students, not surprisingly, also do extremely well on the PSAT:


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