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Benefits of Christian Schools

Why Choose Christian Schools?

Trying to figure out what school to send your child to is one of the hardest decisions parents are faced with, but there are a few aspects of Christian Schools that may be appeasing and help make your decision a little easier. With Christian Schools, superior academic achievements are almost guaranteed over public schooling. Christian schools tend to attract more dedicated teachers who are motivated to teach students who work hard and are motivated to learn and excel at school. Teachers and students flourish in pleasant surroundings that encourage advanced studies in all subjects.

Christian Schools Encourage Strong Moral Character

The moral character and strict rules of conduct of Christian schools make unacceptable behavior such as violence and bullying a rarity. Not to put too much focus on it, a substantial number of public schools have a reputation for less than peaceful environments. Because of social and legal trends which have led to what can only be called chaotic, uncontrolled settings that serve to encourage casual bullying and occasional fights. The focus on moral character and strict rules of conduct at Christian schools renders this sort of unacceptable behavior a rarity.

Christian Schools Promoting Like-minded Attitudes

Experiencing the same Christian education and being surrounded by like-minded individuals helps your child mature and eventually become a responsible young adult, who understands how to live every day in God’s love alongside equally moral neighbors. Being surrounded on a daily basis by like-minded individuals experiencing the same Christian schools makes the maturing process your child experiences a much easier thing. Being able to make friends and interact with other practicing Christians is less lonely than struggling with dealing with amoral individuals who may have no understanding of the Bible and what it teaches.

Christian Schools Respect Parents’ Role

Christian schools also recognize the critical role of parents and manage to keep in close touch with parents over issues that may arise from their child’s moral and educational development. This leads to better engagement between parents and their child’s school. Studies have shown a great increase in education when parents are more involved. Christian schools encourage this a great deal. Heritage Academy will let parents sit in a class to see how their children are being taught.

Christian Schools Encourage Discipline

Christian Schools also have a more disciplined environment in which self-disciplined behavior from students is expected, while also working wonders in encouraging inner reserves of dignity and respect for other people. Christian schools instill discipline as a value. It is not something children are forced to do, it is something that is ingrained in their normal behavior by the curriculum that includes Biblical lessons.

Teaching Values at Christian Schools

Children learn from what they see and hear, and while being steadfast in faith by parents accounts for a large bulk of leading children by example, being around a large number of people who regularly exhibit the tenets of Christianity in all ways of life, helps deepen the message of faith in God’s word and his beloved son.

Bible Teaching at Christian Schools

It goes without saying that daily exposure to Biblical lessons reinforces the moral development of growing children who need strong and consistent leadership from their teachers, a feature sorely lacking in public schools. Teachers at Christian schools understand these Biblical lessons and go to work being an example of the very things they teach the children. This approach amplifies faith and instills confidence in those who learn it.

Higher Academic Achievement at Christian Schools

Christian schools tend to produce students that want to learn and excel. Children do not need to muddle through the lowest common denominator set by a bloated public bureaucracy. Teachers and students grow and prosper in friendly surroundings that encourage advanced studies in subjects such as mathematics, physics, electronics, chemistry and other hard sciences along with the classical liberal arts. This type of early education at Christian schools sets children up for success later in life.

Personalized Attention at Christian Schools

Public schools have historically tended to have inadequate teacher-to-student ratios while Christian schools tend to offer more personalized attention to their students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports a ratio of close to 16 pupils per public-school teacher for the years 2003 through 2013, which stands in marked contrast to a reported ratio of 12.5 pupils at Christian schools in 2011.

Independent Christian Schools Focus on Their Mission

The greatest single advantage independent Christian schools have is their ability to focus on their mission. What sustains each school is its mission, its reason for being the what, for whom, and why. Independent Christian schools are driven by mission, not ministry, which is the way in which mission is fulfilled. Bruce Lockerbie has said, “The primary and only legitimate reason for a school’s existence as a school is to be a place of academic instruction where Jesus Christ lives in those who teach and learn.”

Christian Schools are Free to Manage Their Mission

Another major advantage of independent Christian schools is their freedom to manage their mission, allowing them to avoid the conflicts that often exist between schools and their sponsoring churches and between the church pastor and the school administrator. This tends to reduce the potential for conflicts. Other management advantages include fewer politics, fewer divided loyalties, control of the care and use of facilities, elimination of church membership issues for faculty, and freedom to control the school’s budget. Depending on its bylaws, an independent Christian school also has greater freedom in board recruitment, so its leaders can develop their boards from a broader constituency and include wider community representation.