Is It Time For Biblical Churches to Become Schools Again?

[ChristB4us]

Like on "Little House on the Prairie", & "When Calls the Heart" where the church served as a school during weekdays.

Granted, as more and more students enroll to go to that church for education, the one room class room at one church would not be sufficient to handle all the students, but if more Biblical churches participated in the area, they can arrange where certain classes/grades are held in that one room church with an appropriate number for a teacher and his or her aids can assist in.

I reckon a church can use the Sunday school classrooms for different grades but I believe it is best that one class of that grade is in one room depending on the number of students enrolled.

Definitely cannot be a church that compromises with society's social values. Those oppressive woke Democrats and the liberals Republicans and liberals Christians can go to their public schools that are losing teachers due to low pay and unruly students that the school does not suspend or punish appropriately.

I reckon such church schools can be open to all when the problems ones, after so many suspensions, are expelled to stay in their homes to get their education by Skype to force the parents to monitor their children at to get that education at home.

But will dwindling attendance in churches be enough to pay for a teacher? I reckon it goes to fed up parents willing to pay the appropriate amount for that teacher to teach that class their student will be in. And maybe by God's providence, church's attendance & new members will rise on the weekends.

I am pretty sure this arrangement needs to be worked out more for it to be a positive solution but... is it time for Biblical churches to become school centers again or not? At least there, there will be no porn nor books with stories of children having sex with adults in their library, or so one would hope not anyway for being a Biblical church & not a liberal one.

 

[Josheb]

Many congregations already support schools in my area. There are many private Christian grade schools. No high schools, though. My wife and I homeschooled our children and once a week they attended a "coop" at a local church where local professionals (biologists, chemists, writers, etc.) taught classes. In addition, my children also studied drama, speech, and debate at the church. I'd also add that because the Church is people, and not a religious building or corporation, every Christian homeschooling family is an example of the Church becoming a school. There are millions of them.

 

[EarlyActs]

See classicalconversations.com for the type of homeschool that has a weekly classroom day. It is high-end material too.

 

[Josheb]

See classicalconversations.com for the type of homeschool that has a weekly classroom day. It is high-end material too.

Amen! We sent our kids to a Classical Conversations class weekly. It was different than what's listed on the current website (it used to be a three-year course). My kids read books from Plato to Dostoyevsky, Augustine to Schaeffer and discussed them in class. Ten years later and we're still close to all those families.

 

[DialecticSkeptic]

There are many Reformed churches that already do this. And you must be a member of the church in order to attend the school—or even teach at the school. From in the home to school and the church, the children receive a unified and consistent education.

 

[Josheb]

There are many Reformed churches that already do this. And you must be a member of the church in order to attend the school—or even teach at the school. From in the home to school and the church, the children receive a unified and consistent education.

That is not the case in my area. Many of the private Christians schools and schools within churches do not require students to be members or attendees of the host congregations. In fact, many Muslims attend these schools because they know the education is exemplary and they know their children will not be exposed to secularized worldly philosophies and propaganda. Teachers, however, must sign statements of faith and pledge to maintain certain standards of Christian living (such as attending church more than weekly), and some schools require confirmation to that effect by a pastor or elder from the teacher's church. I have seen teachers dismissed for cohabiting, pregnancy out of wedlock, drug use, and other offenses deemed inappropriate for Christian teachers.

From in the home to school and the church, the children receive a unified and consistent education.

I'd also add extraordinarily rigorous and exemplary. My children (and others in their cohort) were taught Latin, English, French, and Spanish. I've already mentioned their classical conversations reading that covered a wide array of reading from Plato and Augustine through Marx, Darwin, Dickens, to Dostoyevsky, Fitzgerald, and Orwell. The homeschool coop had its own community theater that performed for the public The speech and debate teams (and Odyssey of the Mind teams) on which my children competed performed at the national level. Let's not forget Scouts, either because most Scout programs are still run out of local churches, and the leaders in my son's Troop were among the founders of the Trail Life USA, a Christian alternative to the Boy Scouts.

Try finding a public school that has the students read and discuss Francis Schaeffer's trilogy, or has any interest in teaching boys to become men (assuming they could define the term ).