CANNONSBURG —
A small but determined group of parents, bent on keeping their tiny Christian school open, found a new home in less than a week after the school lost its old one.
Parents of children in Calvary Christian School learned the school would close when they pulled notes out of their children’s backpacks Aug. 29, two weeks after school started. “By Sept. 5 the kids were back in class, doing the pledge of allegiance and the Lord’s prayer,” said Lisa Dean, vice president of the new school’s board and mother of a seventh-grader there.
The school, now called Faith Christian Academy, has all of nine students in its temporary quarters at the Kyova Mall. Two of them are seventh-graders and the others are in grades one, three and four.
Calvary had operated in Grassland United Methodist Church for 18 years, but enrollment, never substantial, had declined.
That wasn’t the important issue to the parents, however. “We’re all concerned about our children being educated the right way, spiritually and academically,” Dean said.
Six families sat down together a day after the announcement and hammered out the basics of a new school. The mall had offered free use of the former Kentucky Farmers Bank space through October.
Two teachers, Shannon Campbell and Iris Young, agreed to stay with the new school at a fraction of their already meager salaries. A local business donated desks, chairs and filing cabinets. The mall gave some chairs. The only items removed from the church were books.
One of the teachers is in charge of the seventh-graders and the other, in old-time school style, works with the five elementary students. Boyd County extension agents Lyndall Harned and Lori Bowling conduct a weekly conservation class.
Others come in for music and physical education classes.
The school’s board is in talks to lease a space at the mall, which Dean calls a good location because of its proximity to the library. Being covered, it also offers shelter for activities during bad weather.
Families pay tuition but that doesn’t cover all costs and the school is planning fundraisers and hoping to attract more students.
On Saturday the school will host what the school secretary calls “an old-school road rally,” in which entrants will follow clues on a route that winds through Lawrence and Carter counties before returning to Boyd. The rally starts at 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot near the former Steve and Barry’s store. Entry fee is $5. Area businesses have donated numerous prizes.
All proceeds will benefit the school.
Faith Christian Academy can be reached at (606) 928-3039.
MIKE JAMES can be reached at mjames@dailyindependent.com or (606) 326-2652.
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