Online resource center works with teacher, homeschoolers

 Classical Learning Resource Center is an online resource center for teachers and homeschoolers  in Bonners Ferry.

The school serves an international community on the Web.

Founders  of the school, Anne Van Fossen and her  husband, John, left Santa Barbara, Calif., with their three boys a year and a half ago.  The family traveled for four months not sure where they would end up, until they reached Bonners Ferry.

“When we arrived we just felt like this is the place where we were meant to be,” said Anne Van Fossen

The Christian on-line school recently named Matthew Gallatin its dean.  Gallatin is  a Christian author and speaker.  He taught philosophy for 17-years at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. and at North Idaho College in Coeur d’ Alene.

Classes are taught from a Christian perspective and there is a spiritual component to everything the school teaches, according to Van Fossen. 

“The classes we teach are Christian-based and we focus on a classical curriculum as well as great literature and teach logic critical thinking,”  she said.

The school offers Greek and Latin languages, Greek Mythology, Homer  and in the spring a philosophy course with excerpts from Plato will be offered as well as classes on The Iliad and The Oddessy.

“I do have one adult registered in Greek class and we actually had a number of requests for adult classes,” said Van Fossen.  “We would like to provide classes for adults in the future.”

The school has about 20 students and most are online, however Van Fossen teaches a Latin class and has six middle school students.

Members of the Holy Myrrhbearing Women Orthodox Mission church, the Van Fossens family have come to make Bonners Ferry their home and offer the school for people in the community dedicated to Christian education.

The online classes cost $250 for a semester and are held two hours a week for 14 weeks.  Van Fossen said they do give a break to locals and charge $8 an hour for Latin classes.

For information, call 267-8949 or go to their Web-site http://www.clrchomeschool.com/.