Education 1987 Arroyo High School, El Monte, CA. California Scholarship Federation. 1986 Academic Decathlete. 1991 Concordia University, Irvine, CA. Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with a course load dense in Biblical languages (Classical Greek and Biblical Hebrew) and psychology, sociology, and anthropology. 1996 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, MO. Master of Divinity with a course load that equipped me for first professional status in the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod. The state of California has a Common Core of standards for each grade the child approaches in Math and English. The English standard incorporates the academic material the