Legacy’s First Legacies

Carter Choisnet playing in his new classroom

This year we have the privilege of having not one but two second-generation families at our school!

Our first graduate with a second-generation Eagle is Kylie Choisnet, who is married to Douglas. Kylie (and her brother) was a student from 2002 to 2008, starting in seventh grade, when the family had just moved to Texas. “We’d been going to a private Christian school in California and that was something our parents wanted for my brother and me,” says Kylie: “an education through a biblical worldview. That’s what we were used to and raised in.”

Back when Kylie entered LCA, the school was still in its infancy, but her parents, she says, “chose the school we would go to before picking a house!” The school was small, Kylie says, and she had a tight-knit group of friends — as a matter of fact, they’re still part of one another’s lives.

And now, Kylie and Douglas are the proud parents of a Legacy secondgeneration child: Carter, age 5, is in Junior Kindergarten.

Kylie had been a teacher in both public and private Christian schools and, she says, she always felt in her heart that her children should get the same joyful education she had, even though some sacrifice would have to be made. Now, she says, Carter loves his teacher and the friends he’s making. He’s always excited to come to school and is sad when the weekend comes around. Carter finds a moment to flip through a book

OUR SECOND family with a second-generation Eagle is that of Danny and Kristina Stockton. Danny started at Legacy back in 2001, in fourth grade, when it was still located at Frisco Bible School. His parents wanted a school whose mission statement aligned with their values, and were very involved in helping LCA grow and thrive. At that time, though, the school was so small, he says, that a rolling partition divided the room so two classes were in the same space. One side was for fourthgraders, the other side was for sixth-graders, which is where Danny’s brother started.

“Teachers felt like family, students felt like family,” Danny says. “Being in such a small class, I was close with most of the kids. And some of the teachers and staff are still at Legacy.”

Danny and Kristina’s son, Greyson — our littlest second-generation Eagle — is in Mrs. Schuller’s Pre-K 3 class. Danny is thrilled that his son is at the same school he went to: “I always loved what Legacy did for me in my faith and academics,” he says.

Kristina, too, wanted Greyson at Legacy: “The way the teachers love the students,” she says, “the way they show Christ in everything that they do, I wanted a place where he felt safe. I knew he was going to be encouraged and loved.”

Greyson rides a tricycle along the track on the playground

Krstina and Danny Stockton with their son Greyson at the ELC Ribbon cutting event in June