Christians Don’t Have to Enroll in Failing Public Schools

When my husband and I married, we broadcast to anyone who’d listen that we were going to send our future children to public school. We were the products of public schools, we said, and we’d had challenging but wonderful experiences. We didn’t want to “shelter” our kids. We wanted them to be cultured and tough. We were earnest, but we also very much liked how we sounded when we said this.

Then we had our children. When it came time to register our oldest (now in third grade) for school, we looked at the stats and saw what the majority of American parents of school-aged kids now also see: that our public schools aren’t educating anymore.