Happy Monday!
As many of you know, we have decided as founders to defer the opening of the charter school for one year until August of 2015. This was not an easy decision, but the need for it became apparent to us for a couple of reasons, but it really boils down to two: the need for the perfect location and the importance of building the wonderful school we envision without compromising our basic principles. What does this mean?

It means we wanted a location that serves the needs of our current students and alumni and can provide the space we need to grow as a school. Many of the current properties we viewed needed a lot of work with regard to renovations that could be very pricey and still only see us through the first year of operations and not serve even half of our current students. Charter schools receive zero funding until the doors open and it seemed the less prudent choice to spend money on a temporary building when we felt funds could be better utilized hiring highly qualified teachers and purchasing equipment for the school.

Second, we wanted to provide the type of school that Pineapple Cove Academy parents expect- a well-organized, well-maintained, and safe property that they can be proud to bring family members to see. We want a community school that conveys the feeling that school and learning are the number one priorities of all who enter its doors. We want to be able to serve as many PCA alumni and current students as we can without turning anyone away. We simply were not going to be able to do that in a temporary, retro-fitted property that wasn't built to be a school.

So what WILL we be doing for the next year and a half? We will be working to diligently secure a property where we can build a building that is meant to be Pineapple Cove Classical Academy. We will be marketing the school and its principles to anyone who will listen. We will be fundraising and learning more and more about the classical model. Most importantly, we will be working to ensure this school opens as the best educational opportunity in Brevard, free of charge to any student who wishes to experience all the benefits a classical education has to offer.

Fortes fortuna adiuvat
(Fortune favors the bold),
Kelly