Tyro Community Christian School

As a former student who attended Tyro for senior year, I can honestly say that I in no way could feel justified in recommending this place to others. I do not know if my standards are too high, but things were so bad that my younger brother wrote out a list of reasons detailing why he should do homeschool: to which our mother simply nodded in accord. The foul instances we endured are abundant, but I shall try to keep this as brief as I can.

In truth, I understand that as a small school with a limited budget, Tyro may not have as many opportunities as a larger, more financially secure institution. However, TCCS simply cannot hope to produce students on an intellectual par with those that attend other schools, both public and private. There are absolutely no proper high school level science classes, only the simplistic “General Science” I took in seventh grade, which my brother had to repeat for his sophomore year! There is no biology, no chemistry or physics… and the mathematics are only slightly better. Tyro has geometry, but that is it- no Algebra 2 (not sure about 1), or even pre-Cal. When we first enrolled here, it was explained to us that the upperclassmen had the chance to take classes at the local community colleges. Initially, I thought it was to provide us with more academic possibilities, but soon I realized that it was because Tyro simply does not offer those advanced courses essential to high school education, and teachers certainly did not teach with college in mind.

Teachers: Well, it’s safe to say that the staff here is certainly not the best, at least by my experience. We had one teacher who played movies which took nearly a week to conquer in classes very frequently. How frequently? Well, I estimated that we lost perhaps a month and a half of class time to these films which bore little relevance and offered little enhancement to what we previously studied. I don’t want to go on forever, so I’ll highlight just one other teacher, one who exemplifies how teaching should not be done. When a student raises his hand, no teacher should respond with eye-rolls, sighs, and insults (especially numbskull). Isn’t it part of the teacher’s job to answer questions, to take joy in the fact that the students care enough about the material to take deeper inquiries? Apparently not. Also, when my younger brother revealed that the class was accidentally given a test for a chapter not-yet-covered, this unnamed teacher simply threatened to throw him out of class and made everyone take both tests. If that is not a red flag, I do not know what is.

Discipline will probably be the shortest topic. Why? Well… because Tyro had none! The most I ever saw was a forced apology in front of the student body. There may have been some ISS, but it was all less than sufficient.

There are some huge safety red flags. For starters, the students were whisked away on a day-long beginning of the school year retreat fifty miles off campus. That itself is fine, but the school sent out no permission slips or forms of that ilk! With that and middle-schoolers ringing the Salvation Army bells with no supervision present whatsoever (or even simply the presence of an older person), Tyro seems to be begging for some lawsuit-inducing accident to occur. Their justification for letting the kids on their own twenty miles off campus for a school sponsored event was simply that “bad things don’t happen in small towns.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! That’s what every witness in every primetime murder investigation special has said. EVER.

Now, communication at Tyro was never the greatest. However, things really took a turn for the worst once my family addressed our concerns over the Salvation Army bit. After that, we pretty much stopped receiving emails altogether, whether they be basic public announcements, special updates, or for school trips concerning which all information was released the week my family took a trip to Texas.

With all this in mind, I simply cannot recommend Tyro Community Christian School to any who read this. As an academic institution, it simply falls far below the standards I possess. My parents loath the place, and that wasted academic year shall forever haunt my memory. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe I simply want the best for the children I may someday beget. Well, if that is so, then my lineage shall not have its intellect molded by such a place as TCCS, where high-schoolers could hardly read aloud basic sentences, and the Geometry teachers skipped all lessons regarding logarithms and imaginary numbers. Because well… why would nonsensical academic fluff like that be on the ACT?The one good thing I can say about this place is that some of the students were neat people and that the school itself is not totally heretical. However, atheists already mock Christians enough for being scientifically illiterate. The last thing we need is to offer more kindling for the conflagration.