Problems with Christian School

40 Reasons For Pulling-Out Your Children From Christian School

Some Facts:

Non-public education is a long-time American tradition. Before 1837, when Horace Mann established state-supported schools in Boston, nearly all of the schools in America were evangelical Protestant institutions.
Nearly 1/4 of the schools in the United States are non-government operated. There are now approximately 15,000 Bible-centered Protestant schools with a combined enrollment of nearly two million students!
The Christian school movement is the fastest growing educational movement in America today and they will do everything to protect it.
Christian publications referred to the rapid proliferation of Christian elementary and secondary schools as the "Boom in Protestant Schools" and "The Christian School Explosion."
Christian schools are currently being established across the United States at the rate of two new schools a day.
Obviously parents by the thousands have opted to send their youngsters to Christian schools as opposed to secular public or private schools.

Why they uphold and support Christian schools:

You are accountable to God for what your children are taught in school
Christian schools offer a better level of instruction.
The Bible does not teach that children should be exposed to all kinds of sin.
The Christian school is right for your child because the Christian school has not cut itself off from the most important book in the world--the Bible.
The Christian school provides an opportunity for your child to witness for Christ.
Christian school educators teach all subject matter from a Christian context.
Christian schools support the family as the number one institution of society.
"The atheists have, for all practical purposes, taken over public education in this country
Christian school educators maintain discipline in the classroom and on the playground.
"We believe that our children are gifts of the Lord. We are responsible to train them according to His Word not only at home and in church, but in school as well."

40 Reasons why you should not send your children to (or pull-out from) Christian school

Proverbs 22:6 is a direct command to parents and not to Christian school teachers and principals. Christian parents are mandated to study Bible doctrine and to train their children in light of doctrinal truth. Christian schools are not mandated by God to perform the duty of child training and discipline.
Christian schools are more expensive than exclusive private school because most of them are money makers.
The Christian school is not extension of the parents doctrinal view especially where the teachers comes from different religious background or without Bible doctrine in their souls.
It is not enough that the teachers of our children are born again Christian they must be Christians will doctrinal frame of references. What a methodist or Lutheran teacher can impart to your children?
Christian schools claim better level of instruction because their teachers are born again Christians. A born again believer without Bible doctrine is not better that an unbeliever.
Christian schools claim that they have the solution for partially eliminating the “non-Christian thought” when actually the school represents only 16% of the child time. The Christian schools are not protective vacuum that shelter our children from world.
Few Christian schools represent a positive Bible-centered form of instruction. Most Christian schools (even those church-based schools) are money oriented.
The local churches are not mandated by the Scripture to be engaged in educational system.
The Christian children must be in the world but not of the world, and not isolated from the unbelievers. The only place where our children are not expose to all kinds of sin is in heaven, not in Christian schools.
Some children are molested, sexually abused or even raped in Christian school by their teachers, principals or by their pastors.
There are a lot of ongoing sins in Christian schools such as abuse of authority, legalism, verbal abuses, gossip, jealousy, favoritism, arrogance, financial corruption, illigitimate use of school funds, extravagant lifestyle of the administrators, principals, or pastors.
Christian school sponsored by a local church is not a ministry but a business since they are collecting fee higher than most schools.
Many of these Christian schools are specialize in fundraising where the pastor becomes terrifically greedy like the TV-evangelists. They never run out of ideas, programs, or activities that will generate income for the school.
A Christian school that sells everything (with the school logo or name on it) is not a ministry. Most of these Christian schools are declared as ministry and therefore are exempted from taxes.
Christian parents are accountable to God for what our children are taught in school led by legalistic, arrogant and work–oriented (instead of grace-oriented) school authorities and staffs.
Christian schools claim that they have the most important thing the Bible, just like the pseudo-Christian and cult of Christianity. They have the Bible which they have not understood and applied to life.
Christian schools claim that education is useless without the Bible. However, using the Bible without properly understanding its doctrine is more dangerous.
Christian parents must never entrust the responsibility of teaching morality to their children to so-called Christian school.
Christian schools claim that they provide opportunity for children to witness for Christ. On the contrary, the children become witnesses of their pastor, principal, teachers and staff’s corruption, wickedness, arrogance, and habitual personal sins.
The children in the world but living not of the world can witness more effectively than those inside the Christian schools.
Christian school educators claim that they are teaching all subject matter from a Christian context, if not out of context most of the time.
Christian schools claim that their students are exposing to the centrality of God in all of life, but that is legalistically, and not on the basis of grace orientation since some of their books are from Catholic, Mormons, or cultic publications.
Christian schools claim that they uphold and support the family as the number one institution of society. Respect for parents is not demanded or commanded by teachers but by parents while controlling or witholding the free will of their students and parents.
Christian schools produce pseudo-Christians and pseudo-spirituality from ignorant, spiritually immature and arrogantly reversionistic teachers and school authorities.
Christian schools claim that they maintain discipline according to the Bible, but actually against the Scripture. There is no mandate for Christian School authorities to discipline our children by spanking or by using a paddle.
Christian schools claim that they provide proper, wholesome socialization for children. No wonder, most graduates of Christian schools are arrogant, hypocrites, if not anti-social.
Christian schools claim that their graduates have higher level of morality, but maybe similar to those Mormons elders.
Most Christian schools bombard their students with endless brainwashing starting from pledges, verses, poems, indoctrination and memorization.
Most Christian schools subject their student to a kind of mind control techniques, guilt building, and endless accusation.
Christian schools despise private schools that are religiously neutral which are far better those legalistic and cultic so-called Christian schools.
No Christian school (or even prison) can permanently change the mental attitude of our children. Most Christian schools produce nothing but religious freak.
Some Christian schools heavily indoctrinate their students which results only to religious knowledge without spiritual reality.
Most Christian schools observe and celebrate the United Nation day, the feast of some saints, Christmas, Valentine, most of pagan traditions, and compromise with the cults.
Most Christian schools utilizes unbiblical methods of fundraising. Some Christian schools even have beauty contest for raising money.
Most Christian schools send off fund-raising envelopes even to unbelievers.
The SBC accusation that parents who pull-out their children from Christian schools are considered infidels is a proof that Christian schools are now a big religious syndicate and business.
Christians should never become critical of parents who send their children to neutral private school.
Our children will imitate their hypocritical teachers in Christian schools.
There is no mandate for a local church to have a “Christian school” ministry. Christian schools is not biblical. The local church is responsible to train their members in Bible doctrine, and parents are mandated by God to train their children in the Lord.
Most Christian schools arrogantly claim that they are fulfilling what the Lord alone can fulfilled, even without realizing that they are futile and useless.

Conclusion:

It is not wise for Christian parents to send their children to Christian schools that are money makers.
It is foolishness for Christian parents to believe that Christian schools are mandated by God to train, discipline and nurture their children in the Lord when in reality such schools are established in order to raise funds for their church.
In most cases, the best education is not from Christian schools. Most Christian schools give more rigorous academics which their students cannot cope up. They are just making a show of arrogance capitalizing on their bright students.
The Christian school is not designed by God to have the greatest influence on the lives our children but through the home that upholds Bible doctrine.
The “perfect or idealistic” environment of the Christian school is not the key factor for the permanent changes in lives of our children. The Christian school has lower level, alcohol, drug and other social problems but nevertheless, it cannot guarantee anything.
If the church and the home is losing grip in raising godly children, the Christian school is more incapacitated to resolve the problem since they do not have Bible doctrine in their souls.
Christian teachers can contribute a lot their nation and become invisible heroes (if they have Bible doctrine in their souls) by teaching in public or neutral private school where they can witness and have an impact in the lives of their students and fellow teachers, instead of becoming a slave with very low salary in Christian schools.
Christian teachers in public school or neutral private school are not just affecting the lives of the pupils in your classrooms today. You are literally acting as change agents in history creating a great impact in human history.
Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer is popular exponent of Christian schools education which is humanistic viewpoint. Their ideal of academically isolating our children is not biblical but simply wrapping a world of view good and evil with some Christian wrapper.
The spiritual training that the Christian schools claim are nothing but religious activities such reading the Bible, praying, fasting, witnessing which the Mormons, Adventists, the Witnesses or the cults can easily perform. The training of Proverbs 22:6 is Bible doctrine not religious activities.
Dobson despises the capacity of the Christian home and local church to train children in the Lord by exalting the role of Christian schools above the role of parents. This is Dobson Christian school cult.
Bible doctrine alone as utilizes by the indwelling Holy Spirit can change a person mentality, viewpoint, perspective, temperament and character. The Christian school can only provide religiosity not spirituality, pseudo-love and not virtue love.
Most Christian schools are either legalistic or liberal, but both fail to uphold genuine Bible doctrine.
The responsibility of the Christian church and parents related to spirituality, spiritual growth and advancement is not delegated to Christian school.
As Christian parents, we need not send our children to Christian schools in order to prepare them to weather the demands of life. When the weather outside is harsh, as parents we send our children out with the right Bible doctrine as spiritual clothing.
Our children need to be equipped for the unpredictable weather of a complex world.
They should learn to live in the climate of the world but not of the world.
Only Bible doctrine can provide this strength and protection. The environment of the Christian schools cannot provide what the Lord and His Word possess.
Most Christian school teachers, administrators, and staffs have church doctrine but not Bible doctrine. Church doctrine gives you nothing but religion.
Most Christian schools are giving the parents a false sense of security and protection for the children while they are being help by wolves in sheep clothings.
Majority of the victims of these Christian schools remain silent, especially if the assailant was the pastor or a church leader.

J. R. Cherreguine Bible Doctrine ministries

03/02/06