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June 28,2010
Joe Bray
Headmaster
The Paideia School of Tampa Bay
7834 N. 56th Street
Tampa, Florida 33617


Dear Joe,
Thank you for your recent application for accreditation with the Association of Classical and Christian Schools. Your school was approved for Candidacy Status on June 28,2010.

Again, thank you for your desire to pursue ACCS accreditation. If you have additional questions regarding the accreditation process, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Patch Blakey /
Executive Director



Why Paideia?
We pray.  We pray a lot.  We pray fervently.  While public schools have disallowed prayer, and many private schools just ignore prayer, we practice the spiritual discipline of prayer.  We believe in the power of prayer because we believe in the power of a merciful God.  Every morning, while you are driving your children to school, the faculty is reading the Bible and praying.  Each morning we pray for a specific family at Paideia.  Thus we enter the day with glad hearts and alert minds, quickened by the Spirit of the living God.  Isn’t it good to know that you bring your children to a school that is bathed in prayer?




“Education is not the cultivation of certain branches of knowledge. …The real essence of education is that it enables men to reach the true aim of their lives.”

- Werner Jaeger



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Paideia Improves Campus, Builds Community

It wasn’t summer school, but there was plenty of activity at Paideia on Saturday, July 24.

Steve Bosmeny directed people to every corner of the facility, inside and out.  Projects were completed, friendships were renewed (check out the photo gallery!), and the campus took a quantum leap toward being ready for that all-important first day of school.  Our goal was to complete this summer the entire project list below.  There are now three categories: those already finished, those currently assigned to particular families, and those to be completed on our second workday on Saturday, August 14.

· Set up new donated computer at reception station
· Seminar Room 3: move switch or switch door
· Install new electrical outlet(s) in Great Hall*
· Install motion light switches throughout*
· Install ceiling under carport* (Ask for details)
· Move/paint parking block to office entrance*
· Install window treatments for Great Hall & Cafeteria*
· Install electrical outlet on east wall of Mrs. Hinton’s office*
· Install electrical outlet for stereo*
· Bookcase for stereo*
· Install AC in computer network server room
· Armor-All office banner
· Repair landscaping blocks outside K-1 room
· Install 12 new lockers*
· Water barriers for both ends of breezeway*
· Spray/dust for bugs
· Apply fire retardant spray to curtains in Johnson, Leahy, and Leonard’s room
· Hang Annual Portraits – Student Body and Faculty & Staff
· Hang Abraham Lincoln puzzle (framed)
· Clean upholstered chairs – Cafeteria & Great Hall & Classrooms*
· Install large casters on sound wall in Mrs. Allee's room
· Remove old security keypad - west Cafeteria (patch/paint wall)*
· Clean kitchen
· Hang French world map
· Clean windows throughout
· Install insulation Bray office ceiling*
· Construct incline for tops of lockers*
· Replace closing mechanism for Boys’ RR door*
· Install L-brackets on Great Hall bookcases
· Touch up ceiling paint in Faculty Men's RR
· Update landscaping outside office door*
· Paint carport support poles*
· Plug drain(s) in Kitchen floor
· Repair wall/baseboard in Cafeteria*
· Power wash & paint breezeway floor*
· Fill in grout on floor around stool in Fac. Men's RR*
· Repair/replace toilets in Classrooms*
· Repair/replace 2 toilets in Girls’ RR*
· Repair/replace 2 toilets in Faculty Women’s RR*
· Mulch office fenced (K-1) playground
· Install projector in Cafeteria ceiling
· Collapse cabinet outside trash bin
· Clean outside of office & cafeteria windows

* A Paideia family has already committed to this project

Click here to see a photo gallery of the day.