Christianity and the School Choice Movement

By 2015 or so, it seemed like the Christian School movement in the US was close to death. For thirty years, many church-based schools strangled their mother institutions. Some church-based schools thrived but only with very careful control of enrollment. Homeschooling overtook Christian Schools as the Christian Education of choice, but that left many students behind. Some Christian parents returned their children to the public school system (or started them there) seeing no alternative or convincing themselves that it was not really that bad.

But the pandemic changed all that. The pandemic pulled back the curtain on public school education and parents were not only enraged, they actively began demanding alternatives. …

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