JRA began in order to help those children whose needs weren’t met in other schools. Our first rent and teachers’ salaries (all three of us!) were paid by the 101 Club. We asked, via Facebook and friends, for 101 people to give $101 each. They did and we have reissued the call each year; while […]
Re-Ed principle one: Life is to be lived now
At JRA, our staff talks about philosophy. We talk about it a lot. A school without a philosophy is an institution untethered; without a strong philosophy, staff are left to make it up as they go, and bad decisions lead down that path. By having a guiding philosophy, we strive to have a culture that […]
Camp Accolade: summer camp for highly reactive kids
“In growing up, a child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow.” Just Right Academy filters nearly all decisions through this simple, one-sentence credo, originally imparted by Nicholas Hobbs in laying out his Principles of Re-Education—a concept deeply rooted in the tenets of JRA’s beginnings. To me, […]
Murphey School Radio Show!
MURPHEY SCHOOL RADIO SHOW RETURNS FEBRUARY 21, 2015 Popular North Carolina novelist Kim Church, Grammy-nominated Alice Gerrard, poet Michael Chitwood, singer/songwriter Ruth Wakefield and soprano Andrea Edith Moore will join an all-North Carolina troupe for an old-time variety show to benefit local nonprofit agencies on Saturday, February 21, 2015—and we are one of them! In […]
whose fault is it?
One thing that makes JRA unique is that we will take children with behavior problems. Not all of our kids have these issues, but they certainly don’t scare us. There is a culture of fear and blame circulating around these kids, one that is not helpful to anyone. If a teacher has a child in […]
