Help me oh creative ones...

[mommydama]

We need a name for our homeschool. See, Kansas doesn't have laws specifically addressing homeschools. Homeschool falls under "non-accredited private schools". All you have to do in Kansas to homeschool is register your "non-accredited private school" with the state board of education. The form asks the name of the school. So...we need a name.

We are Orthodox Christians, using a classical, Charlotte Mason leaning approach. I was thinking of naming us for a saint...like maybe St. Sophia. St. Sophia had three daughters and I look to her for inspiration all the time (though she is so far beyond me, it is pretty hopeless). Sophia is wisdom. Isn't that what we are trying to teach our children? I don't know. St. Sophia Orthodox Chrisitan School is too...ummmm...pretentious souding. Then I thought about something simple. Refuge Academy. You know me and the "home is my refuge" thing. Goes with my life motto, "Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose, gotta tend the earth if you want a rose." from the Indigo Girls. But Refuge Academy sounds like the school at a refugee camp. I need HELP!

I challenge you all to help me find a name for our "non-accredited private school"!

Comments

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

In California ours was St. Bridget's Academy.

[marliah.livejournal.com]

I'm really bad at that, its taken me months to think of one for ours and the best I have come up with so far is Maple Brook School (we have a small brook in our yard surrounded by maple trees :p) so I'm really not a good name picker outterer.

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

We called ourselves the 24th Street Academy because we lived on 24th Street.

But we moved and it's not important in Ohio to have a name.

I'd go with St. Sophia so you can have a school holiday next Monday. (It's not like I'd know that off the top of my head - I just checked the calendar for something else and noticed it - and thought of you.)

[lizziebennet.livejournal.com]

I think St. Sophia is fine... not pretentious. Maybe St. Sophia School, and not put Orthodox Christian in it?

Or... Russians say St. Tatiana is the patron of schools/learning/students. I don't know why, though.

I'll have to see if I can think of anything else--I'm bad with coming up with names.

[moobabe.livejournal.com]

St. Sophia sounds lovely. :)

[sistersunshine.livejournal.com]

I like St. Sophia too! I think it sounds great! :)

[librissimma.livejournal.com]

What is the greek, latin, spanish, or russion for reguge?

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Greek: Καταφκι (Katafiki)
Spanish: Refugio
Latin: Refugium
Russian: приют (any idea how to pronounce that?

Katafiki Academy sounds kind of cool...