FAMILY HANDBOOK

The Scale How School Family Handbook is currently receiving updates. The new handbook will be available by Monday, July 28th, 2025. Thank you for your patience.

Student Enrollment

Please fill out the following form to enroll your students in Lux or Arete.

Class Prep Assignments

Class prep assignments for both Lux and Arete students will be posted by Monday , July 28th, 2025. These assignments will help prepare your student for his or her classes. Parents who have enrolled their students before July 25th will be notified by email once the prep assignments have been posted. We appreciate your patience.

Student Dress Policy

Dress code is business casual, however modest shorts are allowed; no jeans. All students must wear a collared shirt (button-up or polo shirt), preferably in a plain color without any pattern. Clothing must be modest, clean, and without holes. No clothing with writing, as it is very distracting. No sweat pants or pajamas. Younger girls must wear shorts under dresses or skirts. No unnatural hair dye, facial piercings, or visible tattoos if possible. Students’ hair, hands, and faces should be clean, as well as their clothes. Hair should be combed neatly.

Student Pricing

Students enrolled in both Lux and Arete pay a one time registration fee of $25.

REFER A FRIEND FOR DROP-OFF STUDENTS ONLY: If a drop-off student refers another drop-off student, we will waive the first student’s registration fee.

20% of Tuition is due on August 15th, and it is non-refundable. Families can pay in full, or set up a payment plan with Head of School (by semester or pay monthly). Checks must be made out to Scale How School. We do not accept Venmo or credit cards at this time. 

ARETE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Arete Upper School students have an opportunity apply for the Don J. Colton Light of Christ Scholarship. Scholarship information is posted on the website. 

Families are responsible for purchasing materials on the supply lists for all the classes. 

Further tuition information please contact the Head of School: rachel@scalehowschool.com or 801-935-0711.

Lux Teacher Apprentice Program for Students

Scale How School is beginning a Lux Teacher Apprentice Program. In order to be eligible, students must have participated in the Lux program for two years. Students then can apply to be a Teaching Assistant for their 10th grade year. After being a Teaching Assistant for one year, they can apply to become a Teacher Apprentice. A Teacher Apprentice will have the opportunity to teach an elementary age class, and receive compensation for their work. We want this to be a great opportunity for growth for our Lux students, and also be something worthy to report on college applications.

CATECHISM

All classes at Scale How School begin with prayer, hymn, and catechism. The beginning portion of the catechism is the same for every class for it teaches virtue to all of our students. The remainder of the catechism is specific to each class, being a microcosm of that class’s curriculum for the entire year. Here is the beginning portion of Scale How School’s catechism.*

*We are grateful to Joshua Gibbs for providing a template for a school’s catechism in his book, Something They Will Not Forget.

Staff Application

Please fill out the following form to apply as a teacher for either Lux or Arete.

Pricing for Students of Teachers

Students enrolled in both Lux and Arete pay a one time registration fee of $25.

20% of Tuition is due on August 15th, and it is non-refundable. Families can pay in full, or set up a payment plan with Head of School (by semester or pay monthly). Checks must be made out to Scale How School. We do not accept Venmo or credit cards at this time. 

ARETE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Arete Upper School students have an opportunity apply for the Don J. Colton Light of Christ Scholarship. Scholarship information is posted on the website. 

Families are responsible for purchasing materials on the supply lists for all the classes. 

Further tuition information please contact the Head of School: rachel@scalehowschool.com or 801-935-0711.

Staff Compensation

All of tuition goes to Lux and Arete teachers respectively. Tuition is split evenly among teachers as far as classes are to an eight seat limit. If a teacher is willing to teach more students in her class, the teacher will receive the extra compensation for those students beyond the eight seat limit. For example, if a teacher has ten students, the total tuition cost of the last two students will go to that one teacher, but the tuition from the first eight students in that class goes into the pool of tuition to be divided evenly among all teachers. Teachers depend on each other to provide classes for their own families; our goal is that teachers will do more than break even after paying the tuition for their own children, regardless of class size.

Teachers are required to commit to one full school year. Teachers are paid monthly.

Staff Dress Policy

Like the Student Dress Policy, dress code is business casual, however modest shorts are allowed; no jeans. Clothing must be modest, clean, and without holes. No clothing with writing, as it is very distracting. No sweat pants or pajamas. No unnatural hair dye, facial piercings, or visible tattoos if possible. Teachers should avoid clothing that is excessively tight, as well as low-cut shirts.

Teacher Requirements

In order to teach at Scale How School, teachers must be faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they must have a testimony of all ordinances and proclamations made by the Church. Scale How School is an educational ministry and our primary mission is to provide a tutorial that is yoked with the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but we fully support the organization, its doctrine, and its overall message. We are eager to employ wise women of God who have a variety of experiences. Having a degree may be helpful, but ultimately we want teachers who are themselves teachable, humble, and who choose faith over fear.

Though we teach art, writing, science, philosophy, civics, history, and the great books, we must teach through the lens of the Restored Gospel, for there is to be no separation between these subjects and the love of God; there is no such thing as secular teaching. The Light of Christ is what makes learning possible for every single person who has ever lived, regardless of time and place. It is present in every lesson, from math to phonics, from music to P.E.; it is the Light of Christ that gives instruction, that makes it possible for discovery. It is imperative that our teachers have the gift of the Holy Ghost in order to amplify and increase the student’s receptivity to the Light of Christ. President Boyd K. Packer taught that it was crucial for a teacher “to know that the Holy Ghost can work through the Light of Christ. A teacher of gospel truths is not planting something foreign or even new into an adult or a child. Rather, the missionary or teacher is making contact with the Spirit of Christ already there. The gospel will have a familiar “ring” to them. Then the teaching will come “to the convincing of [those who will listen] that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations.””² Although President Packer was speaking about missionary work, this concept applies to all levels of teaching. Truth will always have a “familiar ring” because every student, every human being, is endowed with the imperishable and all-encompassing Light of Christ.

We are preparing the student for the role he or she will play in ushering the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. To teach at Scale How School is to be seen as higher calling than simply teaching a class based on a single subject. As the famous story goes, Charlotte Mason was instructing a class of young women at her teacher training school. She asked one of her students why she was there. The student, surprised by the question, hesitated and then said, “I am learning how to teach.” Charlotte Mason replied, “No, you are learning how to live.” We are teaching students to learn how to live, which in essence can also be phrased as, learning how to love, how to love God and their fellow man, and all that entails.

All teachers will be using some sort of software to track grades and communicate with parents; Scale How is still determining over software options that will be a good fit. Teachers are asked to watch some instructional videos. They must become familiar with the material they are teaching. Upper School teachers grade assignments and offer a lot of student support. Lower School teachers will have a more open and go experience in the classroom since the Lower School classes involve the teacher reading aloud from the required texts and asking students to narrate, then followed by Socratic discussion.

A framework of lesson plans are provided for all of the teachers. Teachers are free to adapt the plans, with guidance from the Spirit, as long as they remain commited to the course description and its objectives. Teachers are also at liberty to provide additional supplements that are appropriate to the class.

As a classical tutorial, Scale How School disagrees strongly with any child-led philosophies as we believe those philosophies to conflict with Charlotte Mason’s 20 Educational Principles, the principles of classical Christian education, and even the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We wholeheartedly agree with David Hicks who cautions, that “child-centered learning is a high-sounding euphemism for [the modern teacher’s] refusal to admit a connection between what makes a person virtuous and what constitutes an educated person. Consquently, [the modern teacher’s] child-centered education produces the exact opposite of an educated person: a self-centered adult.”³ We, at Scale How School, are not here to dictate what you do in your own home; however, we ask that certain contrary homeschool propaganda does not enter into our classrooms. Many homeschool influencers and curriculums are experts in the art of flattery. As wise mothers in Zion, we must do everything we can to not be flattered or to flatter each other, as it is often to the detriment of both the teacher and the student. We must take great care to do what is best for the student. Scale How teachers are also asked to not make negative statements directly aimed at public schools or other schools in front of students. Whether or not such criticism is deserved, we do not want to promote feelings of pride or arrogance in our students. As teachers we want to advance and perpetuate tender feelings of gratitude, to nurture within out students emotions of thanksgiving and obligation to the path their feet walk upon.

At Scale How School we agree with the ancient schoolmaster that an inquiry-based or knowledge-centered approach to education is the correct approach in the quest for virtue, as opposed to a child-centered approach. We must ignore the “child” and appeal directly to the “father of the man” within the student. David Hicks also teaches that a knowledge-centered approach to education recalls “what the ancients understood as the virtues of adversity. What a child can do should not become the sole judge of what the student is asked to do. ‘A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can,’ wrote John Stuart Mill (1944). The activity of learning takes place in a no-man’s land between what the student can accomplish and what he may not be able to accomplish. This fact sets up a creative tension in education to which both student and teacher must become accustomed and responsive. The teacher who refrains from assigning Silas Marner to his 12 year-old students because George Eliot’s syntax is too complicated and her periodic sentences too long may be avoiding this creative tension. If so he should not be a teacher. His students may never know the joy of reading Geroge Eliot because he shirks a calling which the daily work is accomplished through the virtues of adversity.“⁴

We ask our teachers to put into practice this creative tension in order to foster the virtues of adversity within the classroom. No grown adult has ever been truly grateful for the teacher or parent who coddled him as a child, but rather the mature man or woman expresses gratitude for the adults who helped him or her reach maturity. We must accept our God-given authority as parents and teachers, and realize that it is our duty to pass on the great educational inheritance that Western Civilization has to offer, regardless of the child’s current opinions and feelings, and not cater to a child’s immature whims and desires. Our country is in the midst of a maturity crisis. Like Aristotle and Isokrates, we believe childhood to be a crucial period for forming the life of virtue in a person. “To set childhood aside as a time of enjoyment, pleasure, and freedom would not only cripple the child’s chances for future learning, but would condemn him to the exasperating, enervating, and illusory life of pleasure.”⁵

Lastly Scale How School is on a mission to educate the rising generation, but also to improve and develop the homeschool teacher. We are not looking for perfect teachers, rather we desire to help mothers become better teachers. Teaching at Scale How School is a wonderful opportunity for the homeschool mom to enhance the instruction she gives to her own children in her home. We pray that your participation as teachers in the tutorial will bring countless blessings to your own homeschool, and to your family.

1. Gibbs, Joshua, 2019. Something They Will Not Forget. Concord, NC: Circe Institute. ↩︎
2. Packer, Boyd K. “The Light of Christ,” Seminar for New Mission Presidents, Missionary Training Center: Provo, Utah, June 22nd, 2004. ↩︎
3. Hicks, David V., 1999. Norms & Nobility: A Treatise on Education. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. ↩︎
4. Ibid. ↩︎
5. Ibid. ↩︎