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Mr. Stephen c. Batchelder
Co-founder; Governing Board President; teacher


Contact

sbatchelder@madisonprep.org
480-345-2306 ext 221

Government

12/20/22:  No homework. Happy Holidays!!! Have a great break!!!

latin 1

12/20/22:  No homework. Happy Holidays!!! Have a great break!!!

LATIN 4

12/20/22:  No homework. Happy Holidays!!! Have a great break!!!

Spanish 10th grade

12/20/22:  Lessons 7-10 due on Monday, 1/9/23. Happy Holidays!!! Have a great break!!!

Spanish 11th grade

12/20/22:  Lessons 7-10 due on Monday, 1/9/23. Happy Holidays!!! Have a great break!!!
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Years teaching and administrating at JMPS:  Since the beginning. (2000-2001) 
Before JMPS:  
I owned and ran a retail toy store (The Toy Chest) in Minnesota and concurrently owned and ran a commercial leasing company (Audax, Inc.). Before that I worked at a hotel in Minneapolis.  I have worked as a bookkeeper, a movie theater cashier, a sales worker for R.J. Reynolds, a little league baseball coach, a youth football coach, a youth ice hockey coach, a youth baseball umpire, and a youth baseball league commissioner.
Educational History:    B.A. in history from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.  1986.
Courses taken in radio broadcasting at Brown Institute in Minneapolis.
High School diploma - Faribault Senior High School, Faribault, Minnesota. 1982.
Activities involved in during college:    Four Years Intercollegiate Baseball (Captain in Senior Year), One Year Campus Newspaper (Sports Columnist), Three Years Gregorian Chant Group (Schola Cantorum)
Activities involved in during high school:    Varsity Baseball, Varsity Ice Hockey, Theater, Orchestra, Yearbook, Speech
Educational Philosophy:    I believe in small schools and small classes.  I believe in a traditional education with a particular emphasis on American history and government.  I believe in closed campuses, orderly classrooms, dress codes, full school days, and full school years.  I believe in a positive, upbeat, and busy school campus.  I believe high school is a place where young people should explore a wide variety of traditional subjects and extracurricular opportunities; college is where specialization should begin.  And I believe that school should emphasize good character just as much as strong academics.  I agree with Teddy Roosevelt, who said, “To educate a person in mind and not morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Hobbies:    Reading nonfiction – particularly history, biography, and philosophy
Lifelong sports fan – particularly baseball, football, basketball, golf, and tennis.  Playing the piano.  I enjoy a wide variety of music including classical, ragtime, classic rock, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, some jazz, R & B, and, of course, show tunes.  I guess I like pretty much everything except country western.
Favorite Movie:    “The Sting” starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.
Favorite Books:    “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers; “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway; “Patton.  A Genius for War” by Carlo D’Este; "The Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell; "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Act One" by Moss Hart; "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis; "Eat Bacon, Don't Jog" by Grant Petersen; "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes.

JAMES MADISON PREPARATORY SCHOOL

5815 S. MCCLINTOCK DRIVE
TEMPE, ARIZONA 85283
480-345-2306
​Fax: 480-345-0059
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