The Bosco Program
A fundamental part of the Gymnastic and Poetic parts of the St. Joseph’s education is trades work. We do not have the boys learn carpentry and other trades so that they all become tradesmen, but so they can learn confidence, wonder, and fortitude. As Saint John Bosco said: “It is not the end; it is rather the instrumental means for improving the way of life.”
The Bosco Program provides young men with the opportunity to develop mastery in several crafts with the object of giving them a beautiful life and possibly a way to support their futures. At this time, the Bosco program is running ahead of the rest of the academics, as a once-a-week trades program.
Our Mission, Your Sons
St. Joseph the Worker Academy is a 5-day-a-week all-boys high school in the Ann Arbor - Dexter area based upon the educational philosophies of St. John Bosco and John Senior.
The school plans on opening its doors for the 2025-2026 school year.
"As parents, our purpose is to raise sons in the image of our Heavenly Father. Raising sons to be good fathers means teaching them to love beauty through poetry, literature, and the first hand experience of the grandeur of creation. It means forming goodness and virtue by imitating Our Lord in physical labor with other men. By learning about created things in the natural sciences, philosophy, the study of Scripture, and most of all by meeting Him in the Sacrifice of the Mass, it means coming to know the Truth, Who is Christ the Son."
Admissions Inquiry
If you are interested in exploring admission for the 2025-26 school year please fill out the form below and we will reach out to you.
"To educate the head without educating the heart is not to educate at all; and to educate the heart without educating the hands is to leave the pupil unprepared for life."
John Bosco
Engage with Our Ideas
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Fundamental Principles
Classical
Classical Education involves immersion in the great thoughts, conversations, and methods of our Western Tradition, immersing the student in the best of what has been thought, written, and performed.
Poetic
Poetry, along with philosophy, evokes wonder more profoundly than an analytically-focused education, and both poetic and gymnastic modes of knowledge emphasize the value of experiential learning.
Gymnastic
Formation of the five internal senses through tangible reality. The memory, the imagination, the common sense, the emotions, and the illative sense.
