Math may be taught, however, using Saxon math. Grammar may be taught using Shurley grammar. Phonics replaces whole language. Great literature from the ages is taught at all levels. And there are other reasons.
Logic is taught as a formal subject in grade eight.
Practical and professional studies were traditionally viewed as leading to servitude rather than freedom. But things have changed, and the practical has outpaced the liberating. Today it is more important to learn how to make a living then to learn how to live. The classicists claim that it is the best vehicle available to carry out a truly Christian vision of education. The medieval model of education was composed of two parts, the trivium and the quadrivium.