The Aminmadani Family

My wife and I had at least one student at FRA for 27 consecutive years. We have three children who attended FRA from pre-k through 12th grade, and all three of them have gone to college, graduated, and pursued post-graduate degrees. Their experiences at FRA played a part in their current success.

So much of FRA has changed since we joined the community. Physically speaking, when we started, our first child was in kindergarten in a house where the track is now. While our children were in school, we saw the purchase of the church next door, the lower school construction, and the upper school expansion. The campus has changed so much from those early days.

Another positive point of change has been with teacher compensation. I was a member of the board for 24 of the 27 years that my children attended FRA. For much of the time, I was a member of the finance committee, and the salary of teachers was a very important topic for me. Over the years, we have made great strides to make FRA competitive with metro and other private schools. To stay competitive in our market, we must have funds set aside to be able to hire and retain the best local teachers.

When my family thinks about giving, we know that tuition alone is not enough. It is up to us as parents and members of the FRA community to step in and do our parts in both the annual fund and in planned giving. The FRA experience is not limited to a book experience in the classroom, but it is a life experience. FRA prides itself not only in excellent academics, but also in extracurricular activities and opportunities outside of the classroom. It takes funds above and beyond tuition for FRA to be able to create the experience that sets it apart from other schools.

As parents of FRA students and now as parents of alumni, we have always contributed to FRA. First for our own students, and now so that others can have the FRA experience that our children enjoyed. We know that our own kids benefited from parents who gave before they started at FRA; and so after giving to the annual fund while they were in school, we purchased a paid insurance policy naming FRA as the beneficiary. Planned giving helps the children of the future as well as our community, and that is why it is important for everyone to give what they can.

We are proud to be members of the FRA community, and hope other families will join us as we support FRA students for years to come.