Comments on: Send your kids to college grounded in reality. http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/ Deities. Dogma. Dating. Diapers. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:29:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: shelly http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-199 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:33:05 +0000 http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-199 Between, I think, fourth and fifth grade, I almost ended up getting sent to a Christian school after being in public school for my entire school(ed) life up to that point. Didn't happen. That said, though, I'd converted to Christianity somewhere between the ages of four and six (inclusive), only to start questioning and defining my faith for myself about four years ago. While I agree with some things that are taught within the faith, I don't subscribe to everything I've been taught anymore. Between, I think, fourth and fifth grade, I almost ended up getting sent to a Christian school after being in public school for my entire school(ed) life up to that point.

Didn’t happen.

That said, though, I’d converted to Christianity somewhere between the ages of four and six (inclusive), only to start questioning and defining my faith for myself about four years ago. While I agree with some things that are taught within the faith, I don’t subscribe to everything I’ve been taught anymore.

]]> by: Mike http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-189 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:50:28 +0000 http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-189 This is something I could never understand. Why do Christians need a Christian school? Isn't that what parents are for? Don't those who know nothing about Christianity need a Christian school? It isn't doctors who go to Med school...it is those who want to become doctors. It isn't English teachers who go to English classes...it is English students. Well, you get my drift. Constant indoctrination is the hallmark of the scared witless. This is something I could never understand. Why do Christians need a Christian school? Isn’t that what parents are for? Don’t those who know nothing about Christianity need a Christian school? It isn’t doctors who go to Med school…it is those who want to become doctors. It isn’t English teachers who go to English classes…it is English students. Well, you get my drift. Constant indoctrination is the hallmark of the scared witless.

]]> by: Jenny http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-187 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 01:16:30 +0000 http://ftlog.meanderwithme.com/2006/03/send-your-kids-to-college-grounded-in-reality/#comment-187 Wow, word to that. That's another reason why I think Christian schools for K-12 are a horrible, terrible idea. Sending your kid to an evangelical Christian school is like putting down a guarantee that your kid will "rebel" later, once they hit the real world. (If, in fact, they do hit the real world, which as we know many Christians never actually do). Exceptions apply, of course. I know a woman who became a Christian while going to a Christian school (her family weren't churchgoers at the time). Wow, word to that. That’s another reason why I think Christian schools for K-12 are a horrible, terrible idea. Sending your kid to an evangelical Christian school is like putting down a guarantee that your kid will “rebel” later, once they hit the real world. (If, in fact, they do hit the real world, which as we know many Christians never actually do).

Exceptions apply, of course. I know a woman who became a Christian while going to a Christian school (her family weren’t churchgoers at the time).

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