I understand your experiences. Although I know in my heart that not all Christian schools are like the ones I attended, I would have never, ever, for one moment allowed either of my girls to attend one. What I experienced was clear-cut sexual/sadistic abuse. No grown man should ever, ever hand spank a child’s bare bottom, over his knee. No grown man should paddle a 16 year old in front of a class with her skirt pulled up. No grown woman should slap a 17 year old across the face for ‘sassing her.’Unfortunately, it happened at 3 different schools in 2 different states (GA and CO), therefore, I hold a strong personal bias against Christian schools and not much anyone says to me can change it. So I actually completely understand your position. Because of your experiences, nothing could have forced you to send your kids to a public school and nothing could have forced me to send mine to a Christian school. I’m glad we have options and I’m one of those that believes those option should always stay.
It was in large part the discipline issue that kept me from sending my kids to a private Christian school. I was not going to hand over authority to spank my kids without my permission before hand, and that does not include just signing a form. And to enroll your kids in the school, you had to sign the form allowing corporal punishment.
I am very in favor of spanking but only from a parent (or grandparent), but I don’t know what criteria they would use and I was not going to be notified AFTER the fact.
The other factors that led use to homeschooling were the cost, required fund-raisers, required lunchroom and janitorial duty, the cost, and the hour long bus ride each way in a NY lake effect snow belt. There are times kids would be going to school in weather I wouldn’t drive in, and I’ll tackle just about anything.
We kind of fell into homeschooling because the public school was so bad and the private schools just wouldn’t have worked. It was just getting off the ground at that time and boy did we face resistance from family.