Honor, Prayers, Fortunes

Liberty students are sustained in their education through a gigantic, exciting, really important charity – Liberty Common School. Our annual end-of-year fundraising request should reach your postal mailboxes any day now.

 

Please respond to it generously. During the holiday season of giving, many are looking for a sign as deep as the netherworld, or high as the sky!  LCS’s donation recommendation is rather specific, definitely sincere, and intended to compel sky-high giving.

 

Occasionally, parents ask me why we are regularly asked to donate to the school when it is partially funded by government. Fair question. Note that all of government-owned education is an involuntary “charity.” 

 

Political jurisdictions compel taxes from individuals, by force, to be appropriated for subsidizing political goals, in this case, base funding for public education. “Base funding” is just as it sounds, basic. 

 

Liberty Common is intended to be that plus much more. Our school was founded upon parental aspirations toward vastly higher levels of achievement in student instruction, moral development, academic results, faculty compensation, facilities, safety, school culture, excellence in all things. To the extent we achieve elevated benchmarks, it is due to a quarter-century distinguished by heroic parental giving – of our time, our attention, our honor, our prayers, and certainly our fortunes.

 

Christmas and Hanukkah celebrate these same traditions of faith, hope, charity, good cheer, family, and gift-giving punctuated by a spirit of generosity. "I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes,” wrote President Thomas Jefferson, himself a founder of public education in America, “and that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable.''

 

It is vitally important Liberty’s year-end appeal and campaign generate the highest levels of charity.  More information about the effort is included elsewhere in this newsletter. 

 

In the meantime, enjoy a blessed three-week Holiday break, starting today; and, let’s make 2023 our best year ever.