08/21/2026
"The CC school's job is to bring students to a love of the great music, not just the fun or familiar music. Our job is to inspire, not just to command....
Several years after imposing the 'hymn of the month' regimen, someone phoned in a bomb threat to our school. Our response protocol was to assemble the students in a safe space... in this case, our gym. The students were scared.... One of our teachers came to me—'It's time to sing.'
..The students relaxed and started requesting other hymns they now knew, in parts. I stood at the entrance to the gym as the police and their dogs swept the building. Great things were going on in that gym. I watched as beauty rang out from five hundred children... who, in the face of danger, sought beauty. It was their solace."
Forging the American Mind: A Year-by-Year Guide for Classical Christian Education by David Goodwin
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