Underperforming Students and Rolling Admission at Oak Hill Academy

Posted on August 27, 2015 Updated on August 31, 2015

It is time for a parent to parent blog entry.  This is the time of year when parents around the country are having those late night, kitchen table discussions to evaluate how this new school year has begun.  Initial grade reports may have already, or soon will, come out and all of the intentions going into the school year are being checked.  Because I have kids of my own, I’m very familiar with this time-honored ritual.  Also, because Oak Hill Academy has rolling admission AND our wheelhouse is in working with students who are not working to their potential, I am very attuned to this time of year.  I understand the frustration, felt by some at this point in the year, as the goals and good intentions agreed to during the summer appear to be slipping away.  Your student may even be entering that pattern of de-motivation at the prospect of another year of disappointing grades and habits that you’ve seen before.  Deep down, they know they are capable of so much more and you’ve probably determined that a change in setting may in order.

Our approach at Oak Hill Academy rests on a very important principle:  “There is no such thing as an underachieving child, only an unmotivated one.”

The intentional structure and support, found at Oak Hill Academy, enables us to work well with a variety of learning challenges and mindset challenges and to provide the opportunities for real academic, personal and spiritual growth.  Our small school size means small classrooms where students and teachers establish meaningful relationships.  The feeling of being away at school is often empowering to the Oak Hill Academy students.  They own their successes, develop pride in taking care of business with the learning support and organized structure we provide and they begin to expect more from, and for, themselves.  This is a very real opportunity for the student to redefine themselves.

If you are considering a change for your student at this critical juncture, let’s have a conversation about Oak Hill Academy.  We are very experienced with integrating new students throughout the first semester and some of the greatest success stories begin this way.  It is very easy to find out more and I welcome this personal discussion and opportunity to learn more about your student’s needs, challenges and goals.  Oak Hill Academy is The Turning Point for many students and this may be precisely the point in time to consider a change in their trajectory.