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  My son has been going currently to HCA for 5 years and we have had a great experience. High SAT every year along with Spanish and computer classes, which were very important to us. They are more strict than a public school but i am very happy with that and with the student teacher ratio, which is diffidently lost in public school.

  Added July 17, 2017 by micke douglas
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  I went to this school from kindergarten to 11th grade. When I was in the school, I didn't like it because the school was very strict and academically it was boring, which was very frustrating. Now as an adult with a child of my own in an excellent school, I can look back and see that HCA is a horrible school for many other reasons.
  1) "God-centered" curriculum (this really means brainwashing) - This may sound great to the super-Christian who is terrified of their children going to public school and being introduced to reality. The fact is, HCA's "God-centered" curriculum pushes actual knowledge and learning to the bottom of the priority list. I remember whole math classes that were often taken up with only prayer requests. And science class? Please. Who needs science when you can pray. Chemistry class meant the preacher (who taught the class at the time) came in and wrote an equation on the board and left. English was the only decent class where we actually learned anything. In the younger grades, rote memorization was the name of the game. Overall, HCA at the time had memorization very much confused with learning. I imagine they still do, since actual learning and their views on the world just don't mix. I will say this, in high school, we had an excellent Bible teacher. He taught a class on Paul and the early church that was very good. I learned a lot in that class that would help me later.
  
  2)Teacher quality - At the time, and from what I have read elsewhere this is still going on, most of the teachers were also church members with very little educational training. As mentioned before, their idea of teaching was rote memorization. This meant that when we weren't praying and actually had class, it was mostly copying names and dates and writing them over and over again. The only discussions I remember were reinforcements of the brainwashing...er, "God-centered curriculum".
  Looking back, the teachers were not qualified to deal with students either. I remember one class where the teacher would use duct tape to tape a boy to his seat for the day because her classes were too boring to keep him engaged and in his seat. Now I see that her treatment of him was cruel. But this was allowed at HCA.
  
  3) Lack of Electives - There are very few things offered for students in the form of electives. This limits experiences and leaves students chained to the destinies hoped for by faculty and possibly their parents, being a preacher or missionary if you are male, or the wife of one of these if you are female. Oh, or a teacher at HCA, of course.
  
  4)Rules - HCA is VERY strict. Since the church is Independent Baptist, everything is a sin: any music that isn't a hymn, movies, pants on girls, sideburns on boys, etc. You name it, if it's enjoyable or makes you an individual, HCA will preach it out of you. The church is also of the mindset that woman are lesser than men and are sinful, that people are inherently bad, that science is killing God, and many other harmful beliefs associated with Fundamentalism. These beliefs infect their policies, and how these policies are enforced.
  
  Sometimes I wish I had been sent to public school, but then I realize that I saw a side of Christianity that not everyone gets to see, and I'm a stronger person for it. As a teenager, I began to see that reality was different than what I had been fed at HCA. Over several years, I studied the Bible and it's history on my own, along with many other religions, and science. Thanks to my own thirst for knowledge and the Biblical teachings at HCA, I am now an Atheist. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Added May 08, 2017 by A Google User
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  Wonderful school with qualified, caring teachers. I would strongly recommend this school to anyone in the area!

  Added January 06, 2017 by Melanie Carroll