Callis Bell, a small city in Northwest Montana, about 70 miles from the border with Canada.

It's way up north.

The airport is called Glacier Park International.

And we arrived here the second week of March before COVID froze the economy and started

shuddering schools.

We have middle schoolers coming in this door, high schoolers come in that door and then

one we especially wanted to visit was this private school known as still water

Christian good morning

my jalisa how are you today

that's Jeremy Marsh he's the head of school at Stillwater.

Greetings students as they arrive by carpool. It's early and still a bit dark and of course

cold. Jordan, how are you today?

Stillwater follows a classical education model.

And yes, that means Latin instruction.

Let's say our verminies, our Latin verb in these, three times from soft, the loud.

OST, Merstiz 3, OST, Mestiz 3, O-S-T, Mestiz 3, So right this would be grammar school level they start taking Latin Latin instruction in third grade, logic, and rhetoric.

Good morning.

The classical emphasis is clear, as is the Christian emphasis.

With chapel every Wednesday, that's still water.

It was those two together that drew Kendra Espinoza to choose the school for her two daughters. into darkness. Open my eyes and me see.

She's a single mom.

We catch up with her in the kitchen.

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