UMS® is not for you if...
- you believe the professional educator is in charge of your child's education.
- you don't desire to be an active parent mentor to your child.
- you equate sending kids to school with giving them an education.¹
- you don't want to spend more time with your children.
- your family situation does not allow a parent or acting parent to be available to your child while studying at home.
- you believe that once a child is attending school they need you less.
UMS® is for your family if...
- you believe you are your child's first and most important teacher.
- you believe that, as the parent, you are in charge of your child's education.
- you want to spend more time with your children.
- you believe that parents are to travel the journey called education with their children and you consider it a joy and privilege to do so.
- you have a need and desire to partner with gifted and professional teachers in a character-based academic environment, appealing to students' hearts as well as their minds.²
- you desire to intentionally position yourself toward your child and his/her educational needs, putting their needs over your own.
- you believe schools are poor substitutes for parents.³
The most important change in education in the last fifty years has not occurred in schools; it has occurred in the minds of parents who no longer take responsibility for their children's education.
Right from Wrong: What You Need to Know to Help Youth Make Right Choices, Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler, p. 41
University-Model schools are successfully accessing the most powerful known single influence for reforming education in America: meaningfully involved parents!
¹Character Driven College Preparation: Parents & Teachers in Partnership Through University-Model Schooling, Dr. John Turner, Jr., p. 16
²Character Driven College Preparation: Parents & Teachers in Partnership Through University-Model Schooling, Dr. John Turner, Jr., p. 10
³Character Driven College Preparation: Parents & Teachers in Partnership Through University-Model Schooling, Dr. John Turner, Jr., p. 20
