Letter from the Headmaster
Dear HOCA Families,
Welcome to Heart of Ohio Academy (also known locally as HOCA), and thank you for choosing this place among the many schooling options you have. The mission of HOCA is to develop the minds and nourish the hearts of our students through a content-rich curriculum in the classical liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in moral character and civic virtue. We can realize this goal by joining together in a common purpose.
HOCA hopes not only to care for our students but to help them fill their minds with knowledge. We believe that a liberal education in the sciences and humanities is inherently good. We want our students to receive the highest academic accolades, but we also believe that our work is to help our students learn to be good, to teach them to acquire sound minds and well-formed characters.
In choosing Heart of Ohio Classical Academy, you have chosen a very particular kind of place. To honor the choice that you have made, we promise to treat your children’s education with profound purpose. We promise to help them learn to be virtuous. We promise to help your students know themselves, and to help them cultivate their minds and their characters in accordance with virtue.
We ask that you support our school in the community and your children. This important education formation relies upon a close partnership between parent and teacher. Because a classical school aims for more than just supervising students, or training them for careers, we cannot go about our work without you. We ask that you get to know us, and get to know classical education. We encourage you to learn about our curriculum and the mission of our school by visiting our website and participating in the school’s academic activities.
When you have questions about something your student is learning or a method used by a teacher, we hope you will ask us. We hope you will display to your students the core virtues we teach—courage, gratitude, justice, humility, perseverance, prudence, and compassion. Help us teach them to develop the good habits that lead to moral virtue. Above all, help us demonstrate to them that learning is not just for young people but is the truest and best source of human happiness.
I thank you for your support of our school, and I look forward to an excellent school year.
Sincerely,
Mr. Robert Lanthorn
Headmaster