A connection between Highlands School and Dr. John Senior

A comment left at Life After RC:

The reality is that the Legion wrongly appropriated the intellectual property of the Curriculum Director of the Highlands School, Dr. Rollin Lasseter. Having gotten what he created for their use, the Legion then dismissed him. The Highlands School (the only LC school in the USA in 1992) was presented to Dr. Lasseter as the flagship school of the Legion, whereby Catholic education in North America would be renewed. Dr. Lasseter, a Catholic scholar and gentleman, with a Yale PhD and many years of teaching at the college and high school level, gave the Legion a very fine program for "integral formation." Moreover, he coordinated the program with the requirements of the Diocese of Dallas. He helped the teachers and defended the curriculum against its critics; he knew what was needed for "integral formation." He also developed a "curriculum of the halls," which dictated what was needed outside of the classroom to make the school work as a unified whole and as a reliable model and teacher of the Catholic Faith. He consulted non-Regnum Christi colleagues and built the curriculum that he developed for the Highlands on the work of other University of Dallas professors, whose children attended the Highlands in the early 1990s. The work of Prof. John Senior at U. of Kansas was also used as authority for developing the Legion's curriculum for the Highlands School --and other LC/RC schools -- of "integral formation."

I know a Christendom alumna who taught at the school for several years. How much of its curriculum is still faithful to the ideals of Dr. John Senior and poetic knowledge?

Highlands School
Poetic knowledge: the recovery of education - Google Books Result
The End of Education: John Senior and the Idea of Poetic Knowledge (pdf)
Our Schoolmaster Remembered: Dr. John Senior
Dr. Senior Biography
Teaching Classical Literature Classically by Andrew Kern
The Good Books Literature Program


Rollin A. Lasseter III 1939 - 2008
Winning Writers - Poetry Contests and Resources for Poets and Writers
Modernity Program