Things overheard in my talks at a Christian School
Posted by: stuartdelony in Blogroll, Funny, christian, christian school, general, home school, homeschool, kids, life, private school, public school, questions
Friday I was asked to speak for a chapel at a local Christian school. I spoke with a group that was kindergarten to sixth grade. They were a real fun bunch, but any time you talk to kids from any private school (Christian or otherwise) you find that they’re a bit sheltered in their world view (which isn’t always a bad thing). I spoke on conquering fears using the story of David and Goliath. I also commented on how I got into a fight, that resulted in stitches (in public school). The talk went well, then I opened up the floor to questions - to which I found out is something that’s never really been done with this group.
First off it became a hilarious session of kids raising their hands to share with me how they got stiches or were in some sort of bloody accident. It was awesome.
Then when I cut off the bloody show and tell… they started asking questions not about the talk, but about me (and the fact that I didn’t attend Christian school).
The best questions I heard:
“If you didn’t go to a Christian School… then how are you a Christian?”
“How were you able to know about Jesus if you went to a public school?”
“Okay, if you were a Christian, why didn’t you go to Christian school?”
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Wow. I attended public school throughout most of my life, but my experience in a private Christian school run by nearby Dutch Reform churches was an interesting one.
What happens to these kids you visited seven years (or whatever) down the road when they are in grade 9, 10, 11? The school I went to in grade 10 was almost entirely filled with students who had been schoolmates since kindergarten in that school system. It doesn’t take a psychologist to figure out what had happened in between the years you mentioned and the years I experienced. Kids want to be “Cool”. They want to fit in. You can’t keep them in the “bubble” forever, and in one way or another, it bursts.
I went to 8 different schools in 7 years between Grades 5 and 11. The school with the worst drug problem, most swearing, and most fist fights was the private Christian school. They were trying so hard to “fit in” with their culture, that they actually surpassed all of society’s worst qualities. In university it only got worst as sexual repression is a mainstay of Christian colleges. Most the students in Christian colleges are doing the same things as the non-Christian students, but without the freedom to tell anyone about it (or else they get kicked out - after the school keeps the money) or to gain guidance about healthy relationships.
Dude, I grew up at Fremont Christian in California form 4th to 10th grade.
I taught bible for 2 years at a school my old church ran.
Here’s what I’ve seen (all totally subjective here)…
Kid gets in trouble at public school. He gets kicked out. He goes to continuation school. Gets in more trouble, get’s kicked out. Can’t do independant studies, so it’s Adult School. That don’t work cuz he never goes…
…keeps staying in trouble on the streets and on drugs. Get’s in criminal trouble. Now it’s either juvenille hall, or….(drum roll on an 18″ floor tom)…
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL!!! Dun dudda dun!
“Maybe some good moral religion will fix my son”.
Maybe that kid will get me to smoke ciggarettes and pot and drink and start diggin’ Metallica and Slayer and LSD. Just maybe…
I’m not a huge fan of private schools, however, I’m sure that if there was a genuine and Godly school with faculty that was full of the fire of God in their bellies, maybe it would be different. I just ain’t never heard of a school like that.
Like I said, it’s subjective. It’s my experience at christian school as a student and a teacher, but it is what I’ve observed so far.
So for me, I haven’t seen or heard of a christian school that was a bubble, but then I don’t know about every school.
Gotta go…
mark jr.
very interesting.
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