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With today's myriad of educational philosophies and choices, it's natural to have many questions about academics. Here are a few that are frequently asked about Lake Pointe's program.

No, LPA intentionally chooses to NOT follow the Common Core program.

As its name suggests, there are many objectives that schools' curricula have "in common," and these appear in several places in Common Core. This is coincidental.

Many, many more Common Core objectives and curriculum priorities are diametrically opposed to the idea of a classical Christian education.

Naturally, Common Core ignores many classically-oriented content areas, such as formal logic and Latin, but the "new" program also downplays fictional literature in general, and older classic literature specifically.

"Critical Thinking Skills" and "analysis" are highly trumpeted in Common Core, but broad classical approaches to teach students to think for themselves -- especially from a God-centered worldview -- provide a better method for encouraging creative problem solving and the asking and answering of worthwhile questions.

Some LPA math and other textbooks may be labeled as related to Common Core (to help sell the materials to a broad array of schools), but LPA aims to teach to the curricula by classical methods. 

To read a concise article on a few of the main differences between Common Core and the "Classical Core," click here.