Prep Time, a nine-month program that will replace the traditional college experience and offer virtually full-ride scholarships to those who are accepted, is being developed by Turning Point USA.
According to organizers, the plan aims to give high school graduates the opportunity to grow and learn judgment skills through a bible lens before entering the quad.
Charlie Kirk, the founder and CEO of TPUSA, stated in a press release that” the coercion, anxiety, and lack of critical thinking we are seeing on college campuses today are addressed.” Training Time students may be better prepared for life than most university graduates in only nine months.
The Prep Time Program’s Director, Ty Gooch, stated that the first course will start in September.
In a way that makes use of the governing facts found in the authentic Word of God, Gooch told The College Fix via email,” We will be using passages from good books to help the kids learn to think critically about some matters of life, virtue, beauty, logic/reasoning.”
According to its website, donors may cover the approximated$ 20, 000 per student cost, including housing and materials, for those who are accepted into the system, which is a low price.
According to the Prep Year’s webpage,” This is a proper funding in the unmatched planning of future officials and culture-shapers of our country.”
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, is where it meets in person. Some applicants have already been accepted, and the application process will be available on a rolling basis until all positions have been filled, according to Gooch.
According to Gooch, students who take Prep Time will be able to use what they learn to pursue a variety of careers, including college, military service, trades, public support, housework, or government.
In an interview with The College Fix, Gooch stated that the purpose of “prep time” is to prepare individuals to lead well-rounded and biblically outstanding life as engaged people who use their control to affect the world for the glory of God.
The Bible, the fantastic books, and important founding documents will be covered in detail for the kids.
These future technology leaders will develop critical thinking abilities, be equipped for management, and develop character and maturity, according to Hutz Hertzberg, Turning Point Academy’s general knowledge officer, in a media release. They will do this by studying the Greatest Book: the Bible, the Great Books of Western Civilization, and America’s Great Documents: the founding documents.
According to Gooch, Prep Year is a division of TPUSA’s Turning Point Academy, which has 300 affiliate members and 100 affiliate schools. He told The Fix,” We help schools K-13 embrace the 5 C’s of schooling: Christian, classical, conservative, collaborative, and cost-affordable.”
Prep Year gives students the chance to become more mentally prepared for the career they want to pursue.
For instance, the Gap Year Association, a renowned nonprofit that works to improve access to the start of the year for high school students, suggests taking gap years to students looking for personal growth and clarification of their life goals.
According to Julia Rogers, founding director of En Route Consulting, a gap-year consultancy, Turning Point’s Prep Year is more academically involved than the typical program. However, she continued, it appears to provide an alternative path that is comparable to those offered in comparable programs.
” I believe it combines many of the qualities that we would associate with a gap year, such as self-discovery, mentorship, experiential learning, etc. Rogers told The Fix,”.
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