Union Academy is a K-12 school located in Monroe, North Carolina. The school was founded in 2000. Union Academy is a charter school that focuses heavily on character education. Its students learn about such character traits as responsibility, respect, optimism, perseverance, adaptability, trustworthiness, initiative, and compassion.
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“The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order, of union with God, the principle of all perfection.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
“...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)