Comments on: Can You Afford A Christian School?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:10:47 +0000

Alan,
There are certainly a lot of benefits associated with Christian schools.
In my case, I attended a Christian high school and that experiences had a huge impact on where I am today.
You are right, also that many of the teachers in private schools do so out of a sense of calling not income. When my wife moved from a public school to a private school she took a significant pay cut. However, she loved the unique opportunity to help spiritually impact children.

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By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:24:25 +0000

@Ted
You make some good points. Still, if someone can afford it and prefers a Christian school that is great. My place of concern comes when people do it because they cannot afford it. That is a dangerous place to be.

By: Alan Reed

Alan Reed — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:58:04 +0000

We sent our kids to a Christian School. My youngest is graduating this year. Sending your kids to a Christian School is not guarantee of adult faithfulness but it does help. As parents, you can’t let your guard down just because your child is at a Christian School. The most important and impactful spiritual training should come from the home.

Another benefit of a Christian School is that they are usually smaller than public shools so it is easier for students to get involved in school activities. Keeping kids involved in school and church activities is important, especially during their teen years.

Finally, I believe the teachers a Christian Schools are special. Like any school, they are not all great teachers. But, I do believe they are answering a service call, they certainly aren’t doing it for the pay. In general they love teaching and working with children and have the added bonus of a spiritual focus.

By: Ted @broketofree

Ted @broketofree — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:59:43 +0000

In our area, the schools are fantastic. Great, awesome. No reason to think they would offer any less of an education. Yet a lot of Christians home school and send their kids to private schools (also some of the best around). I struggle with it for two reasons. 1. It does not teach the young person how to interact with people daily of different faiths and backgrounds. 2. I have met just as many jacked up kids at christian schools then public schools. I always recommend to kids that have a strong faith and good family to go to public school. There are so many opportunities to learn what the world is like and to get extra curricular mentoring or teaching from the vast amount of churches around. There are definitely kids that need that nurturing environment with some extra attention. Maybe they had some bad experiences with friends or have some learning disabilities that need more attention a private school has. But I find the drawbacks to be way to much if the public schools nearby are good. If they stink- then of course. Who wouldn't? Lots of urban areas have that issue. .-= Ted @broketofree´s last blog ..The shame of debt =-.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:30:43 +0000

@gn
You make a good point. If it is one or the other (school at home or school away from home) I would also rather them be at a Christian school away from home.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:27:22 +0000

@Kevin
Interesting question. I’m sure there have been studies, but I don’t have any stats.

By: Kevin@OutOfY0urRut

Kevin@OutOfY0urRut — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:14:12 +0000

Are they’re any statistics availabe measuring the correlation between believers at say, ages 35, 40 or 50, and attendance at Christian schools?

Are there similar statistics for public school attendance?

I’m asking because most of the adult believers I know didn’t attend Christian schools, so I’m not sure, anecdotally of course, if Christian school = adult believer.

This may be flawed, but to my thinking, that’s the primary reason I might send my kids to Christian schools, to raise the chances that they’d be believers in adult life.
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By: gn

gn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:24 +0000

Great topic, and one of the really tough decisions we all face as parents. Our kids have loved their small Christian school from K-8 but we are putting our daughter back into public schools for high school in part because a larger public high school has much more in the way of gifted programs and activities and in part to help save money for private college. My thought is that if you can't afford both private high school and a private Christian college it is probably safer to give them exposure to the secular school world while they are still living with you. .-= gn´s last blog ..Food for Thought: Govt Withholding Plummets =-.