When re-enrollment comes around it is an opportunity to re-evaluate why you choose Immanuel Christian School to be the means of educating your children. After all, there are many educational opportunities possible: home school, cyber school, public school, or a combination of all of these.
So I decided to list reasons that ICS made the most sense for our family:
- We have godly voices other than ours speaking to our children about life: why learn, what good behavior looks like, why do they do what they do, the importance of good study habits, etc.
- The quality of education is excellent! Not only are students taught well and creatively, but what they are teaching takes into account the God that made the whole world. They will learn to critique what they see and hear from a biblical perspective.
- Teachers are not going to ignore bad behavior and are going to hold out a high standard. Along the way, they will also talk to our children about the heart issues that causes behavior.
- There is great benefit in having our children be a part of a social environment where other parents are making different choices than ours but are still wanting their children to do what is right.
- It gives us opportunities to talk to our children about how to live in a fallen world when they sin against others or are sinned against from those outside their immediate family.
A one of those children who experienced the benefit of ICS, I will add that the teachers of ICS added to my parents teachings by giving me the perspectives I needed to face all of the rest of life. I learned not just information, but also how to learn. I learned that the world is not just about me. I learned that my parents might have peculiarities, but they are not the only ones who are passionate about Jesus. And I learned what it meant to be loved and accepted for who I am, but also stretched and challenged to be a better student/daughter/Christian. Could that have happened outside a Christian school context? Probably, but ICS does those things deliberately.
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