A Christian boarding school in Texas received a donation of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) from a wealthy family in Texas. The donation was made for a very important purchase according to sources. Students and school officials are very happy with the said donation, saying this is a great help for the school.

The San Marcos Baptist Academy was the recent recipient of the $100,000 donation from the very generous couple Donna and Charlie Oglesby. The donation, reports said, will be used for the purchase of a 44-setter school bus. One of the Oglesby’s kids Travis is an academy graduate. This time another Oglesby in the name of Jackie is also joining the academy for this school year.

“Bobby Dupree, the academy’s vice president for development said the donation would ensure that the school has a safe transportation vehicle for the students. “This ensures us that we have now safe transportation for our students,” Dupress points out. He said the help of the family is an incredible blessing which the school gladly accepted.

He said San Marcos Academy is a college preparatory school which is fully accredited and committed to educate the young generation to become responsible citizens of the country – instilling in them the genuine Christian values. The school is both day and boarding institution which offers co-educational experience for students from 7th up to 12th grades. It just celebrated its 100th anniversary last year with a bang being founded in 1907. The school is accredited with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and is also an active affiliate of Baptist general Convention of Texas, it was learned.

The school is very active supporter of Teachers day celebrated all over the globe to give recognition to the millions of teachers. It celebrates every year with its own version of the Teacher’s week celebration. Since then, it’s always been the tradition of the school to also highlight the celebration with giving out of awards as well as other special activities in the school campus. At the same time, students are always flooding the teachers with special gifts and flowers as their way of recognizing their genuine efforts for child development programs.

The systems of boarding school have been proven to be an effective system of educational learning. No wonder, that there are several kinds of private boarding schools that have been established in the Untied States. Usually, this boarding educational learning institute caters grade school until high school educational learning phase. As well, there are also boarding educational institute for college educational learning phase. There are different classes and types of boarding educational learning institutes.
The oldest and widely known boarding educational institute type is the religious boarding schools. In which, the learners are both educated in academic and religion matters. Just like this video entitled Sicut Cervus (G P Palestrina), sung by Chavagnes Choir, have presented the scenario of choral activity of Chavagnes International College. Wherein, this choral activity has become part of the educational learning activity in catholic boarding educational learning institutes. This will make the learners become devoted and deeply oriented according to their faith that can be very helpful in worshipping God during church mass or services. The catholic boarding schools are widely popular and the oldest boarding educational institutes that have existed in the around the globe especially in Europe and in the United States.

It has been reported and estimated that there are about 30 catholic boarding schools that have been established in the United States. Most of these religious boarding schools can be found in Maryland. One of known and oldest catholic boarding school in the United States is the Canterbury School. In which, it caters young individuals from grade 9-12. This private boarding school has trained the young individuals to become dynamic persons and become good assets in the society. The learners of this boarding school will be academically trained and educated. As well, their spiritual faiths have been molded and deepen according to their religious practices, culture or tradition. In which, it help them gain good personal characters or attitude that they can posses in life for the betterment for themselves and to the society where they live in. No wonder, that there are several catholic individuals who want to enroll their children in Canterbury School. As a result in lessen the population rate of the individuals who are enrolled to the typical private elementary schools or high schools. With the vast increase of the young individuals who are enrolled in their school, they have decided to expand their educational learning institute by constructing additional building facilities in their area in order to cater more learners who are enroll in their school.

Indeed, this Canterbury School has become one of the leading catholic boarding schools in the United States. This religious boarding school has become one of the leading boarding school systems in the Untied States that continually competes to the educational learning quality of typical private elementary schools and high schools in the nation.