Logos Lab School is a program for gifted and talented students in middle school. It is located in rooms 200, 201, 202, and 206 of the Julia E. Test Middle School building in Richmond, Indiana.
Pull-out program In the years of 5th & 6th grade canidate students are pulled out of their classes to go to Dennis Middle School for a sort of "practice" Logos. This is called the "pull-out program". In middle school, students in the Logos program go to the Logos Lab School which is located at Test Middle School in Richmond, Indiana. (It's location has moved in the last 8 years, so it may not stay there for long.) The Logos program is led by four excellent teachers that are over-qualified for regular teachers. The program allows students to be very relaxed, yet they still receive an education better than an ordinary Middle School. The school consists of only around 60 students, so every student gets a great opportunity to meet other students and build relationships with students their age.
The name for Logos, which is Greek, has a significance. The meaning of that word logos pretty well explains, except to a much larger degree than the school, what it is all about.
Coursework
The courses offered at Logos are good important classes that is a necessity for your child's education. French(okay wait you just said necessity for education what the does french have to with good education i mean COME ON), science (covering a large subject area of all types of sciences including chemistry, the human body, studying atoms, and so much more), humanities which covers grammar and social studies, and mathematics. There is the course that makes Logos known, and that is the projects every nine weeks. You can choose any appropriate subject and you are to do a presentation over the subject including visuals, called products at Logos, and an oral presentation. Logos is a place where the teach get away with telling their student that they are retards.
Student evaluation Logos uses a different grading method, unlike other local middle schools that use letter grades. Every six weeks (four times a school year) Logos students write a self-evaluation in which they are expected to reflect on their work and keep Bloom's Taxonomy 6th level of thinking, from comprehension to evaluation to evaluate work.
As a former student of the Logos Lab School I feel that this article has been very kind to Logos. And while I may agree that French is not necessary, and I apologize Mrs. Williams for saying this, it is a social norm in many other countries of the world to teach multiple languages at a time. Students who attend Logos have the oppurtunity to catch a head start and explore the world around them, and while it may be limited to the French area, this may or may not inspire students to actively find a different culture that interests them. There are many things I feel were not expressed in this article however. The small size of Logos allows it to be more like a family. I know I thought of my classmates more along the lines of cousins than actual classmates. I had a few favorite 'cousins' and a few 'cousins' I would prefer to never talk to again. There is little escaping a problem if you have one with a fellow student. You can ask Tyler, a fellow student of mine during my years at Logos, (obviously I'm not going to say his last name) from my own year. We seemed to hit it off like cats and dogs from the get go and this never ended. There is also very little information on the four great teachers that make Logos so wonderful. I found this rather disappointing. I'll be honest, Mr. Shroyer, the mathematics and science teacher, was my favorite. "A blind monkey with a pencil could do better!" Such personal details are fine to give if given in the right format. It would be fine to tell several stories that paint the picture of the teachers all on their own. Mr. Hellrung for example, one of the humanittees teachers, tended to have a very cynical if not brutally honest opinion that he was always free in giving. I regret not being mature enough at the time to realize just how much I could learn from the man. For example we read a short story, The Lady and the Tiger, during class, which is about a woman who must tell her lover which door to pick that will lead to his married death or brutal death, and in the aftermath asked us to choose which the woman had sent him to. Being a stickler for such things, I sat in the middle and argued both sides and Mr. Hellrung sat right there with me arguing both sides as well. Four teachers I will never forget. Alzheimer's may claim me when I am 105, but I refuse to forget four great mentors. It is because of them that I even consider education as a career.
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2. 25-07-2010 18:04
As a student at Logos, I really had a great year at this school. You can`t find a better school anywhere else.
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3. 11-02-2011 12:51
I love this article, but it left out some very important details. 1) certain teachers have a tendancy to verbally abuse others 2) 89% of students develope DMHWDD. Because Hellrung always deserves to be verbaly abused. 3) The teachers are well known for their 'methods'. Hellrung has been known to tie up students and threaten to shove scissors down their throats if they don't put away computers nicely. 4) The chairs are more loved than the students in classes other than Klinge ( these are all lies)( they reflect the 'fun' we have and share together. - Spencer)
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4. 25-11-2011 02:33
I really like this article too, but I don't agree with some of the things that the author said. French may not be a necessity, but it's a part of Logos, without it we wouldnt be the same. And French does give us a good education, it will help us in high school if we choose to take french as our foreign language class. The teachers also do not call us retards and get away with it. There was a joke that Mr. Hellrung called a kid retarded last year during math class, but he didn't really.
Logos is a great school, and I'm glad to be a part of it, like the first comment said, we are all a big family. Last year I was a sixth grader and I only knew 6 people in the school on the first day. But I got really close to everyone by the end of the year and now we are all really close. And we all do think of each other as family. We have an "adoption" program thing that the students made up where 8th graders adopt the 6th and 7th graders. I still think of my mom from last year as family. In Logos, we are all very close and very alike, but yet polar opposites. Some of my friends are the exact opposite of me and we get along really well my group of friends are actually all different. But in Logos, we don't really base friendships off of similarities. Logos is really just like a big family. And there are people who don't get along, but just think of them as that one annoying cousin that you don't like, and then the ones that you do like are like the cousins that you are the closest to. And then the teachers are all like grandparents or aunts and uncles. I'm very comfortable around everyone in Logos, and I think everyone else is too.
