by ET » Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:07 pm
I think it's a bit simplistic to presume that the primary reason for someone to attend a Christian school is due to the issue of evolution/creation. I've had a wide experience in the education world. Three of my four grandparents were public education teachers. My parents were career teachers in public education. I went to both public (1-3rd, 11th, 12th) and private schools (4th-10th), but the private school I attended was not explicitly Christian. I learned about evolution at both the public and private school. My brother went to a public middle school, but had a bad experience and begged my parents to go to a Christian school and they worked that out, even on their teacher salaries.
My two oldest children went to public schools almost all of their educational lives. Oldest was there up through 8th grade. Next one went up through 6th, then we home schooled a couple of years before going to the same private Christian school as the oldest. The youngest has been home schooled since the 3rd grade. We were happy with the school, but our youngest is a self-driven girl and moved along faster than her classmates and the teacher and my wife decided we needed to look for faster or more advanced coursework, so we ended up home schooling over a private school since there weren't any other alternatives within the local public school. Didn't have a thing to do with evolution or leftist teachers.
I think one other consideration is that not all kids who end up at Christian schools end up there because of the religious nature of the school. I know plenty of folks who have sent their kids to Christian schools here in Memphis and it's got more to do with the "private" part than the "Christian" part.
Next adventure in home schooling for us: our home schooler is going to play volleyball this year for the high school she would attend if she went to public school. Tennessee got around this year to passing a law to allow home schoolers to play for the public school in which they are zoned.
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ET on Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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