Q. What are the Starting
/ Dismissal times?
A. Pre-school 6:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. (Academics stressed 8:30-11:30; Academics reviewed
in the afternoons)
K5-2nd grade 8:15-2:45
3rd-6th grade 8:15-3:00
7th - 12th grade 7:55-3:05
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Q. Do you provide transportation?
A. No, we do not provide
transportation to or from the school.
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Q. What are your lunch
prices?
A. Lunch prices can be found
here.
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Q. What is the cost of
your tuition?
A. Tuition and Fees can
be found here.
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Q. Are you affiliated
with a specific church or religious group?
A. Yes. We are a direct
ministry of Sweethaven Baptist Church. We teach Baptist
doctrine in our bible classes.
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Q. What is the best way
to contact SCA's administration?
A. E-mail is the
most effective way to contact the administration. Our administrator,
Mr. McClain's, e-mail address is dmcclain@sweethavenchristian.org
. Our assistant administrator, Mrs. Borkert's, e-mail address
is yborkert@sweethavenchristian.org
. Mrs. Borkert deals with most enrollment issues.
You can also call at any
time. The phone number for the school is 757-484-4067.
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Q. I've been told that foreign
language will be taught in the upper school. What language(s)
will be taught?
A.
Spanish I - 1 credit
Spanish II - 1 credit
Latin - .5 credit
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Q. What's the status of the school's
accreditation? How does not being accredited affect the
students' ability to get into colleges?
A. Currently, there is no move on
our part to achieve accreditation. This is by choice. Even
if we did begin the process, it would be through NACSAA
(North America Christian School Accreditation Association)
which is recognized by the Commonwealth of Virginia, but
is not a state organization. The importance of high school
accreditation is often misunderstood. While you should be
concerned about the level of education your child receives,
high school accreditation does not necessarily affect college
undergraduate studies. In fact, a large number of public
schools across the U.S. are not accredited for one reason
or another. This does not inhibit their students from attending
universities. Several universities within the state university
system have confirmed that they are only concerned with
GPA and SAT scores. Harvard College's admissions counselor
stated that while they would look into the reasons why a
high school was not accredited, that would not disqualify
a student from being admitted. Their main concerns were
also the GPA and SAT scores.
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Q. Did the majority of the seniors
have the necessary grades/SAT scores to apply to the bigger
colleges?
A. Yes, the majority of our students
do have the necessary SAT scores to apply to larger colleges.
Many of them do choose not to. We do emphasize the importance
of a Christian education all the way through college and
do encourage our students to go to Christian colleges. The
Lord has provided many Christian colleges that are strong
in the liberal arts. Here are some links to those colleges.
bju.edu - Bob
Jones University
clearwater.edu
- Clearwater Christian College
mbbc.edu -
Maranatha Baptist Bible College
pcci.edu
- Pensacola Christian College
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Q. Does Sweethaven gear its academics
towards the math and science careers or is it geared more
towards mission-based careers?
The goal of education at Sweethaven
is to develop the whole person. Being a Christian to the
fullest extent means using all of the faculties the Lord
has given us. There is an unfortunate absence of Godly individuals
in all career fields of our world today. Our mission is
to train students to be able to go to any career field and
be a witness for Christ in that field. I Peter 3:15 tells
us "to be ready always to give an answer to every man
of the hope that lieth within us." We want to develop
students that could approach any career field with a Godly
perspective, and we will educate them toward that end.
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Q. Do you offer honors classes?
We view ourselves as a college preparatory
school. Therefore, all of our classes are geared to preparing
each child for a rigorous college education. We do offer
help classes to those who fall behind and our teachers are
prepared to give little challenges to those who can handle
the work. For this reason, honors classes are not necessary.
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Q. What Christian colleges do
you recommend?
bju.edu
- Bob Jones University
clearwater.edu
- Clearwater Christian College
mbbc.edu -
Maranatha Baptist Bible College
nbbc.edu
- Northland Baptist Bible College
pbc.edu - Piedmont
Baptist College
pcci.edu
- Pensacola Christian College
westcoastbaptist.edu
- West Coast Baptist College
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