Why We Must Support Christian Schools

Some of you may know of a man named Keving Jennings, who is currently the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education. He is also the founder of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network.

This post simply serves to direct you to excerpts from recommended books by the GLSEN. WARNING! It would not matter whether these excerpts were describing homosexual or heterosexual activities. They do not belong in books recommended for children. Period. To see just a litle of what I am talking about, read some of the excerpts here.

Until our Lord returns or calls us home, we must enage these issues on two fronts. On one front, we must do all that we can in the public square. Whether or not our children attend public schools, our taxes fund them, and we have the right and responsibility to address what goes on there. On top of that, many families will send their children to these schools unaware of what is going on. Families who send their children to Christian schools must never adopt an attitude of "My family is fine, who cares about the rest?" These are our neighbors, our friends, and our family. We must work within the sphere of public education to see that what is taught is what is true, good, and beautiful.

The second front, of course, is Christian education. We must support it at every opportunity. Just as families in Christian schools must work for and within the public square, so Christian families whose children attend the government schools must share in the support of schools where truth, goodness, and beauty can be explicitly taught and lived out.

Renowned philosopher and popular author of After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre wrote,

What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. Adn if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope.