The goals of the SELAH Learning Center are multi-faceted. We will endeavor to create an environment which encourages children to love learning, provides challenges for academic excellence and achievement, offers opportunities for outside accountability, evaluation and deadlines, encourages group interaction and activities, and brings together qualified mentors who love their subjects.

Our classes are designed to be a support to your home education program, providing a framework for a course of study. Enrolling a student in a class at the SELAH Learning Center does not absolve the parents of their responsibility to oversee their student’s education. Parents must assume responsibility for fulfilling the requirements of the their state’s homeschool law, including monitoring their student’s work to ensure the required number of days or hours are met. Parents of high school students will be responsible for ensuring that their teens are meeting the requirements for a diploma program, if enrolled, and/or college admission requirements.

Parental oversight involves being aware of material covered in class and assignments given for work at home during the week, and then overseeing the completion of those assignments. Although being part of a class at the SELAH Learning Center adds another level of accountability for the student, this by no means diminishes the parents’ responsibility to supervise their child’s work.

Parents may need to provide additional assignments in subject areas where a student is exceptionally gifted and motivated or extra help in areas where a student may encounter difficulties. It is important to remember that since classes meet only once a week, there is a limit to what can be accomplished in a one-hour, once-a-week class.

Since SELAH Learning Center classes are by their nature a “joint project” in learning between families and SELAH, parents are urged to contact the staff with any concerns. Students are encouraged to view their instructors as mentors and resource persons, who are prepared to deal with questions or problems that arise.

It is imperative for parents and students to value the time and energy the instructors invest in preparation for their classes by ensuring that students complete their assignments on time, apply their best efforts, and come to class prepared. While homeschoolers are, by nature, very independent, parents need to remember that when students are part of a group, some compromises may need to be made for the good of the group. SELAH Learning Center classes offer so much more than course content. Our classes provide opportunities for students to learn life skills as they mature in becoming responsible for their own education.