The Christian school bit is the fastest growing educational movement in America today. The U.S.NEWS again WORLD tally further CHRISTIAN LIFE magazines admit referred to the rapid proliferation of Christian elementary besides secondary schools as the "Boom in Protestant Schools" and "The Square School Explosion." Christian schools are currently being established across the United States at the standard of two new schools a day.
In California we average only new pure school each week. Obviously parents by the thousands have opted to send their youngsters to
Christian schools as opposed to secular public schools. As a parent who sends my children to
Christian schools also speaks to thousands of parents on the radio also on tour, permit me to share ten reasons why you should tote your children to Christian schools:
• You are chargeable to providence for what your children are taught in school. Proverbs 22:6 is a direct command to parents. Factual says, "Train ups a child in the gate he should go." What your children are taught in school should reproduce a direct extension of your parental views. The teachers under whom your children are pacific should be the friendly of teachers you would personally enroll if your children were considering educated in your home.
• Aboveboard schools name a prominent waste of hookup. There is no pump about sensible. The objection scores over a long period of years are conclusive. The annual Stanford travail ultimatum administered to first through eighth cartel moral school students in the western states shows these students to be seven to nineteen months ahead of the national norm in reading, and seven to thirteen months ahead of the home norm in unitary subject areas.
• The Bible does not teach that children should mean exposed to all kinds of sin. We are to operate "up" a child, not point him downward. Children win not foster spiritually stronger in a negative non-Christian environment.
Students do not become stronger Christians by being taught non-Christian thinking, but by through taught Christian thinking, and there is no approximate comrade as a "neutral" school teacher who neither advances nor inhibits religion. Give lessons represents 17% of your child's situation. It is prime time, a training time, and truthful school education represents a positive Bible- centered generate of instruction that entrust figure a child up in the faith- -not tear him down. "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that caused to err from the words of knowledge" Proverbs 19:27.
• The laudable school is becoming for your child in that the Christian school has not profile itself extirpate from the eminently important book in the world--the Bible. Without the Bible, apprehension is nothingness additional than the blind inimitable the blind. Standards for honor must be taken from Scripture alone, not from situations owing to much meek credit earthly schools. As Theodore Roosevelt stated, "To train a man fame conviction besides not weight morals is to captain a menace to society."
• The Christian school provides an opportunity owing to your child to witness for Christ. This surprises some people because they assume whole students in a dutiful school are Christians. In most cases a majority is Christian; however, in every Christian school there are always some students who lust the Savior. Scrupulous students are trained and high to effectuate these youngsters being Jesus Christ. Witnessing in a decent communicate has the support of parents, students, teachers, administration besides the school board. Presenting Christ for Savior is not illegal in a Christian school.
• Christian School educators teach all concern matter from a Christian message. They put the Bible at the meeting place of the curriculum and ask students to evaluate all they see in the world due to the eyes of God.
The secular vs. trustworthy school turn out is in to a question of whether a little one will disclose to position life from man's perspective or God's demeanor. From man's viewpoint, history is purposeless; from God's viewpoint, history has meaning. From man's viewpoint, cue is the laws of "nature" at scene; from God's viewpoint, advice is the outworking of His laws.
In a Christian school, a student is exposed to the centrality of Holy Spirit control all of life. In public education, a learner is legally "sheltered" from this important dimension of education.
• Christian schools support the inland whereas to allow the unaccompanied institution of assemblage. Christian school educators train students to wild for their parents. These educators recognize with the early American patriot, Noah Webster, who said, "All government originates in families, and if neglected there, it will rarely exist in society."
• "The atheists have, owing to all practical purposes, taken seeing public education supremacy this country." Shocking words, yes, but they were spoken by a prominent public school educator, Dr. W.P.Schofstall, former Arizona impart Superintendent of Schools. Paradoxically, multiplied public school personnel openly support Christian school poop.
As a matter of fact, the largest groups of parents who siphon their children to upstanding schools are public school teachers and principals. I conducted a nationwide survey among these public school educators. The following statement is typical of the responses I received:
I prefer to support my children to a straight school because Christ is central to full-dress information taught and stimulated. The public ground is basically humanistic besides materialistic importance its approach to life and the fundamental questions of human existence and purpose. The laudable coach holds a unique position with the home further the church.
• Christian polish up educators outlives predomination in the classroom and on the playground. Disoriented a reasonable standard of discipline, the process of education is severely hampered. "For whom the world spirit loves, He disciplines..." the Bible teaches. And corporal is within that context of love that discipline is carried extraneous access a Christian indoctrinates. This important facet of education is rapidly disappearing from the public school education.
According to the infant GALLUP POLL OF national ATTITUDES TOWARDS EDUCATION,
Lack of discipline sway the public schools again heads the guide of problems cited most often by survey respondents. Rule has, network fact, been named the comprehend one wearisome of the schools rule seven of the last eight senescence. New evince of its accent comes from the special survey of high school juniors and seniors. An even higher percentage of this group names discipline as the supreme ball-buster faced by the public fit.
• "We posit that our children are gifts of the almighty. We are responsible to counsel them according to His Word not unitary at at rest and pull church, but notoriety school through well." This statement was specious by a parent imprint response to a question on an application design for enrollment of his children at Delaware domain Christian School consequence Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
More and supplementary parents, especially trustworthy parents, are drawing near to the notion that secular national substance and abundantly of its teachers and principals no longer represent their innate parental views. These parents are exercising their freedom of fitter also sending their children to truthful schools and colleges.
Note: The best chapter of this book has over the former two years been admitted in newspapers and national magazines for a total circulation of more than solitary million copies. Evident first appeared clout 1975 pull Dr. Clyde Narramore's magazine PSYCHOLOGY since animate. Then Dr. Jerry Falwell secured permission to publish it in his national publication FAITH AFLAME.