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Foothill Christian School was established to promote elementary education with a spiritual dimension for the boys and girls of the Glendora area. Our goal is to help each child achieve Christian maturity as illustrated in the life of Christ (Luke 2:52).
We offer a variety of educational experiences designed to build character and develop potential. Using the basic California framework as a curriculum foundation, students are taught critical thinking and how-to-learn skills. Teaching students not only what to think, but how to think helps equip them with the leadership distinctives necessary to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
The academic challenge of our core curriculum is complemented with instruction in music, fine arts, foreign language, physical education and technology. This, together with limited class size and a favorable pupil-teacher ratio, provides the structure for achieving our philosophy of education. The administrative, instructional, and clerical staffs are dedicated to providing academic excellence in a spiritual atmosphere.
Bible is taught daily and serves as the core of our curriculum. Bible is taught as a separate subject-matter class, but more importantly, it is integrated into the teaching of all subjects. Special attention is given to life application in order that students may learn about God’s plan for their lives. Memorizing Scripture, chapel services, Bible reading, singing and lessons on Christian living are a weekly part of the curriculum.
Achieving emotional and social maturity in childhood prepares boys and girls for the stresses of the teen years and adulthood. Foothill Christian School will do everything possible to help boys and girls develop an integrated personality which reflects "favor with God and man."
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of Foothill Christian School is to provide families with a Christ centered, Biblically-directed education which encourages the development of a personal relationship with God and which instills the vision and practice of excellence in academics, character and service to God and others.
PHILOSOPHY OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
The philosophy of Christian education begins with the presupposition that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God is the source of all truth. The Bible is viewed as the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God and becomes the basis of all beliefs and the integrating foundation upon which Christian education is established. Christian education, then, must view all of life through a Biblical perspective.
Because Jesus Christ is "the way, the truth, and the life," all Christian education centers in Jesus Christ. Through Him man finds truth as related to every subject area. ". . . There is none other name, under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved, " and therefore, Jesus Christ is come that man might have life more abundantly. As a result, man can find truth through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is the source of all knowledge and wisdom (Col. 2:3). He is the Creator, Designer, and Sustainer of all things (Col. 1:16-17). This truth cannot be separated from the academics. Although academic excellence is a vital part of our Christian school, it is secondary to the spiritual truths, which are integrated into the curriculum. These truths provide the foundation from which all other knowledge and wisdom is taught.
Since truth cannot be divided, there can be no true education apart from God's Holy Word, the Bible. Education, then, becomes the process by which we learn to see things as God sees them, in other words, through the perspective of His Word. Furthermore, in seeing things as God sees them, we are more in a position to discover the purpose of education for the Christian.
The focus of Christian education is not on man but upward to God. Man is to serve God and be completely dependent upon Him.
Man was created in the image of God. Disobedience brought the knowledge of good and evil, and that knowledge (forbidden by God) destroyed man as he was intended. He was marred by sin and that sin has been inherited by all of the descendants of Adam. Man is, therefore, a sinner by nature and must be born again and made into a "new creature" through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Christian education holds to the belief that God has revealed Truth to man and that Truth takes pre-eminence over man's reason. Education, which ignores God, is very limited because it concerns itself with only what is here and now. A Christian education shows that true reality originates with God and not man and is spiritual and eternal, not material and temporal.
God's Word states that the responsibility for instructing and disciplining children rests with the parents. God has given parents the responsibility for the Christian nurturing of their children. The reason the Christian school is in existence is to aid parents in their responsibility of training their children in the academic disciplines according to God's truth.
Being that parents have the primary responsibility in educating their children, it becomes paramount that they communicate closely with those with whom they have entrusted their children.
It is on these truths that Foothill Christian School has established its reason for existence. Therefore, the primary purpose of FCS shall be to provide opportunity for youngsters to study in a Christ-centered academic environment
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OBJECTIVES
Further purposes call for development in the following areas:
1. Spiritual - (a) to seek to win to Christ those who are uncommitted, (b) to educate students so that they successfully integrate Christian ideals into their total life.
2. Intellectual - (a) to provide an academic climate conducive for learning, (b) to encourage the learning of necessary skills required for meaningful participation in society as an adult, (to nurture competency in communication and research skills, and in the ability to make mature decisions).
3. Social- (a) to provide children with opportunities for growth in the social skills required for active participation in today's society, (b) to enable students to understand and appreciate the privileges and responsibilities of living in a democracy.
4. Cultural - to promote appreciation for and creativity in the arts. The arts are an integral part of life. God Himself wants to be glorified through artistic, musical, and literary expression. Integrating the Bible with the school’s fine arts curriculum goes deeper than merely quoting Bible verses which refer to music, art, literature and drama. It involves finding facts and principles, which are taught in the Bible, and incorporating them into that particular class’ instruction. Our focus is to search for ways to involve pupils in art, music, literature and drama from a Biblical world and life view.
5. Physical - (a) to provide opportunity for the learning of skills necessary for growth in physical performance skills.
ACCREDITATION - Foothill Christian School is accredited with the Association of Christian Schools International and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
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