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How to start your own school

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The author, a C.E.O. of a Kansas City manufacturing company and a trustee of the Wichita Collegiate School, describes in valuable detail how he and other parents started their own independent school. Today, that school ranks Number 1 of all schools in the State of Kansas.

Robert Love writes: "My purpose in writing goes further, however, than merely wanting to tell about a school somewhere in the Midwest. Above all, it is my intention to show that Collegiate School need not be an isolated example of independent education. In describing our experience I have tried to provide an outline of how essentially the same thing can be done by other parents, in other towns and cities across the country."

When my wife and I were hired out of Minnesota in 2001 to found and charter a K-3rd Grade private school in Ohio, this book was a mentor. Faith Academy in Cuyahoga Falls began with 3 teachers and 28 students. Thanks to Robert Love, we had a good idea of the problems we would encounter and encounter them we did! Just as in Robert Love's experience with Wichita Collegiate School, our board members could not stop interfering in the operations of the school. And like Collegiate School's founding school administrator, we did not stay. But both schools survived their initial turmoils.

Consider the Table of Contents: 1. What Is This Book?; 2. Monopoly vs. Market, or How the Normal, Average Parent Can Help Improve Education; 3. A History of Collegiate School, or How We Got into the Independent Education Business; 4. Philosophy, or Why We Are Here; 5. Accreditation and Certification, or Just Because You're Better Doesn't Make It Right; 6. Consumption, or To Market, To Market; 7. Production, or How to Divide Labor and Multiply Efficiency; 8. Finances, or The Fine Art of Full-Cost Pricing; 9. Operations, or Practicing the Preaching; 10. Customer Relations, or The Care and Feeding of the Education Consumer; and 11. Final Thoughts.

Consider also some the gems below:

"The one sure way we can improve education in America is by making the educational system competitive, with parents and students able to do 'comparison shopping' . . . No monopoly can tolerate true competition for long, and the public school system is a monopoly institution."

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This book is simply fascinating! Robert Love offers real-life solutions to everyday problems in schooling.

If you're a teacher who can't find a job, buy this book and hang your own shingle above your door! You can do it - Robert Love did it, as well as countless others.