Stacey Miller, Head of School, offers some answers to common questions about school choice.

AREN’T YOU SHELTERING YOUR KIDS FROM THE REAL WORLD BY PUTTING THEM IN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?

·     This question implies that, since we can’t shelter our kids forever, we should just immerse them in the culture and hope they turn out OK.  Imagine if public health officials took this approach to disease control. “Well, you can’t avoid small pox forever, so you may as well expose yourself to it and hope it doesn’t kill you.”  Thankfully, we don’t immerse people in disease, we immunize them against it.  We expose them to small amounts of the disease so their bodies can develop a resistance to it.  Similarly, Christian schools provide immunization against false ideas and negative influences.  We offer controlled doses in a controlled environment so that our students are strengthened intellectually and spiritually to face the challenges that lie ahead.

·     Putting children in Christian school is a way to protect them from certain negative influences until they are prepared to withstand them.   That is what good parents do.  For example, good parents don’t let their toddlers watch television programs containing profanity and violence.  Good parents don’t expose their first graders to sexual images and concepts.  Good parents don’t let their seventh graders drink alcohol.  Good parents protect their children from all sorts of influences until they are ready to make responsible and informed judgments about them.  A Christian school can offer the necessary protection and preparation.

·     According to the Bible, the “real world” is one that God created, sustains, and where He rules and reigns; it is the world where people are created in God’s image, so they have great potential for good:  but they are also fallen and sinful, so they have great potential for evil.  It is the world where many things are terribly wrong. But God has explained how they may be made right again.  God is central to understanding the “real” world so, no,  we are not sheltering them; we are enlightening them.

Read Why Choose A Christian School, Part 2.

Read Why Choose A Christian School, Part 3.