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Open House!
We are so excited to show off our new facility and we hope you will join us at our first open house on Sunday, July 27, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. We’ll have refreshments and tours. Feel free to bring the...
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whose fault is it?
One thing that makes JRA unique is that we will take children with behavior problems. Not all of our kids have these issues, but they certainly don’t scare us. There is a culture of fear and blame...
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Murphey School Radio Show!
MURPHEY SCHOOL RADIO SHOW RETURNS FEBRUARY 21, 2015 Popular North Carolina novelist Kim Church, Grammy-nominated Alice Gerrard, poet Michael Chitwood, singer/songwriter Ruth Wakefield and soprano...
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Camp Accolade: summer camp for highly reactive kids
“In growing up, a child should know some joy in each day and look forward to some joyous event for the morrow.” Just Right Academy filters nearly all decisions through this simple, one-sentence credo,...
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Re-Ed principle one: Life is to be lived now
At JRA, our staff talks about philosophy. We talk about it a lot. A school without a philosophy is an institution untethered; without a strong philosophy, staff are left to make it up as they go, and...
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It’s 101 Club time again!
JRA began in order to help those children whose needs weren’t met in other schools. Our first rent and teachers’ salaries (all three of us!) were paid by the 101 Club. We asked, via Facebook and...
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helping those who can’t afford JRA
One of the things that grieves all of us that work at JRA is meeting a potential student and knowing that we can change his or her life—but they can’t afford the tuition. We give a significant amount...
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Behavior is Communication
Early on in JRA’s history, we sadly had to conclude that one of our older students had mental health issues that we weren’t equipped to handle, and he needed long term hospitalization. Because we had...
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It’s almost camp time!
With summer fast approaching, our thoughts turn to camp. Many of our students have not been successful at camp in the past because of anxiety and behavior challenges. If that is true of your child, we...
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We have a new name!
Our sign has said Hope Creek Academy at Just Right Academy for quite a while. And our high school program has long been called Hope Creek Academy. Now it’s time for the rest of the school to catch up....
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