“Traditional schools are killing the genius in our kids”, David Osborne said on a podcast as I was driving to work one morning. “Imagine if Picasso’s teachers told him to drop the paint brush because he was already good enough at art and needed to focus on calculus”, he continued.

These words hit me so hard. What should my wife and I do with our kids’ education after this year? We have three children, the oldest in a startup Montessori program which wasn’t going to be moving forward after the year ended. We were so confused.

We love the Montessori style education but we didn’t have a program close enough to enroll. I kept listening to this podcast to see if David would reference the school where his kids were enrolled. It was called Acton Academy and it sounded like the most perfect school for our children.

I went home that evening, started to research, and fell in love immediately. We had two choices. Find an Acton Academy in our area or create one. There wasn’t one anywhere, which left us with only one option. I immediately reached out to Maureen.

Starting a school was her dream and the format Acton offered was what she had been referring to since we had met her. It was time to get to work.

We believe every child is a hero. The challenge is creating a platform that allows them to discover their true calling in life. We are thrilled to be able to offer this type of education to our children and other children in the community.