About Eastminster School
Vision
We see our graduates first among their peers in mathematics and in science and well versed in the masterworks of Western literature such as Homer's Odyssey, the plays of Shakespeare, parts of the Bible, and a Dickens novel. We see our students with a command of American and British literature as well as key works from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We see students leaving the eighth grade speaking and reading a second language, appreciating the history of art, and valuing the music of our culture.
We envision students familiar with the history of Western civilization from classical Greece and Rome to the American and French revolutions, the industrial revolution, and the World Wars; students well versed in American history, the principles of our republic, and its great works including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist papers, the Gettysburg Address, and the Letter from Birmingham Jail. We see students knowing the promise of American heritage for freedom around the world, the power of free markets, the wisdom of limited government, and the self evident truth that all people are created equal, endowed by God with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Finally, we see articulate students skilled in the use of technology, able to access and manipulate data, devise a thesis, and compose a lucid argument to support it. In sum, we see graduates having the tools to excel in society and through habit and model the personal responsibility to apply them to the benefit of themselves and others.