Coweta

County parents concerned about their children's education

will have another option starting next fall.

The Newnan

Classical School will open its doors next fall for

students from kindergarten through sixth grade.

The

curriculum, according to one of the organizers behind the

project, Carol Brown, is back to basics.

The school

will focus on the classic method of learning with a

Christ-centered approach. Starting in elementary school,

students will study Latin and move on to Greek in high

school. Students will focus on logical, critical and

rhetorical aspects of education and will use the trivium

method of learning how to think, instead of just

memorizing facts to pass a test, she added.

"Eighty

percent of our language derives from Latin. If you're in

the medical or legal profession, you constantly deal with

Latin," Brown said.

The school

is currently looking at sites and probably will locate

somewhere between Interstate 85 and Thomas Crossroads.

The school

is partnering with Newnan Christ Church, where Brown's

husband, Kyle, is an assistant minister. The church

currently meets at White Oak Elementary School, but is

looking at building a church with an adjoining building

big enough for the school.

Tuition

will be between $3,000 and $3,500 and Brown is hoping to

keep enrollment at 50 students for the first year.

"Every

classical school has doubled after the first year and

we'd like to keep the class sizes small," she said.

But if 100

students want to attend the school, they won't be turned

away, she said.

There are

currently 160 classical schools around the country, with

just two in Georgia, on St. Simon's Island and in Smyrna.

The idea

for the classical instruction came after World War I,

when several soldiers returned home with brain damage.

After the classical method worked on the injured

soldiers, educators began wondering if the process

wouldn't work for healthy students.

The

experiment proved successful and classical schools

started popping up around the country.

Brown

emphasized that parents will be extremely important at

the new school and discipline will be emphasized. In the

school's mission statement, an entire entry is given to

discipline.

"It is

our intent at Newnan Classical School to instruct every

child to obey his parents and to show respect to all

persons," the statement reads.

For

information on the school, phone 770-252-0110.