Most private schools getting vouchers in Indiana are religious. One school is bucking the trend
Myra made a doll dress during a sewing class at the School for Community Learning, one of just 7 secular schools receiving vouchers from the state in 2017. PHOTO: Dylan Peers McCoy
BY DYLAN PEERS MCCOY - 15 HOURS AGO
Seven-year-old Fallon breathed a sigh of frustration.
Her classmate, 11-year-old Myra, looked across the small round table where they were working. Fallon, sewing a pin cushion, was bent over her needle, struggling to slip thread through its eye.
Heres a tip, said Myra. You see how this is frayed at the end?
Youve got to ever-so-carefully snip that frayed edge.
Fallon and Myra are students at the School for Community Learning, a progressive private school on the north side of Indianapolis, where kids not only take math and reading but also study less conventional topics like sewing, birding and Hogwarts classes that bring together children from kindergarten through middle school.
The School for Community Learning is unusual among Indiana private schools for not having a religious focus: More than 90 percent of the states private schools are religious, compared to 68 percent on average in the U.S.
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