Dean Lopez, Whiteville Headmaster Patrick, Founder Mitchell, Leland Headmaster Benton, Dean Cause-Nance

EXCITING NEWS: CCS-Leland has tied for FIRST place and CCS-Whiteville has tied for THIRD in the Classic Learning Test’s 2025 CLT8 national school rankings!

This is a huge accomplishment and a true testament to our 25 years of curriculum development, as well as the hard work of our staff and students.

In other news, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will hear a charter case that may decide if charter schools are agents of the state.

24-394 OK CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD V. DRUMMOND DECISION BELOW: 558 P.3d 1 LOWER COURT CASE NUMBER: 121,694

QUESTION PRESENTED:

The Art of Christmas

How the Good News was Spread in Olden Times

In the 1400’s, most people could not read the Bible because it was printed in Latin, a language only a few monks and clerics could read. And television and photography had not been invented, so in order to tell the story of Christianity, priests decorated the churches with large painted scenes from the Bible.

‘What the Past Is For’

By LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI

The following speech was delivered in the Coolidge Auditorium on Nov. 5, 2003.

Futurology, on my definition, is a very serious science whose subject is not only non-existent but necessarily non-existent: for the future does not exist and never will. We would not find this worrying if it did not immediately bring to our attention an analogous but more terrifying insight: namely, that the past does not exist either.

The proposed new social standards by The NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) were sent to teachers for their comments in a recent survey. Below is one question and a teacher’s response for a 4th grade standard that is supposed to teach North Carolina history. The question exemplifies the tone of the entire standard.