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Liberty Common School Headmaster Bob Schaffer, today, announced the promotion of Ms. Jenna Allen to the position of elementary principal at the school’s Plato campus from her current position as assistant principal. 

Abraham Lincoln famously framed liberty as a collective duty when he said, “It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves.”

Aristotle emphatically stated, “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” 

 At a Regular Meeting of Liberty Common School’s Board of Directors held last night, the school’s Headmaster Bob Schaffer announced the promotion of Mrs. Sandy Stoltzfus to a newly-created position of Deputy Headmaster

Through the story of Achilles and Priam in The Iliad, Liberty Common students encounter the timeless moral truth that even amid profound loss and enmity, compassion, humility, and love for one’s enemy remain enduring virtues worth learning in every generation.

This year looks a little different at Liberty. We have open seats in some classrooms, something that hasn’t been common in the past.

My hometown of Mason City, Iowa, has several claims to fame. It’s the birthplace of The Music Man composer Meredith Willson and the inspiration for the musical, site of the only remaining Frank Lloyd Wright–designed hotel