Red Cliff Academy

In the 1980s and 1990s we home schooled all of our children at one time or another, although we used other forms of education as well. I once put together a dossier (a detailed description) of the school that highlighted the advantages of this approach to education.

Our home school was named "Red Cliff Academy" for two reasons. First, we lived on Red Rock Road in Toccoa, Georgia, literally on a hillside that had a "cliff" on one side. I don't recall any red rocks near the road, although there was a lot of red soil everywhere. 

Second, our name "Ratcliff" was taken from the town of "Radcliff" in England, a suburb of Manchester [spellings were not uniform at the time]. Radcliff in turn was derived from the "Red Cliffs" of the Irwell River that ran through the town. So, in a sense, to call our school "Red Cliff Academy" is to go back to the roots of our family name.

Here are a few things that may help home school parents and children, although I think they could help other families as well. "Freely we have received, and freely we give."  --Don Ratcliff

Red Cliff Academy (Toccoa, Georgia)

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