A Christian School education is an investment that will help prepare your child not only academically, but spiritually. While many parents dream of being able to send their child to a Christian based school, unfortunately many parents don’t even consider this an option because of the cost. However, by doing a little bit of research you will find that there are ways to obtain the funding necessary to make the cost of a Christian education a reality for your children. If you are concerned about the cost of a Christian school education, below are a few options that can be explored.
Discounts and Tuition Assistance
In order to help families with the cost of Christian education, many schools offer discounts such as early registration, multiple-child
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Tuition rates can vary between schools and just because one school is more expensive does not necessarily mean it is a “better school”.
Grants and Scholarships
One thing many families find helpful when it comes to affording a Christian education is through grants or other awards that can be applied to help finance the cost of tuition. Just search the phrase “private school scholarships” and it will bring up potential options of provide information that will guide you further in your search.
Family and Friends
It takes a village to raise a child, and most of us have kept that village close. Consider asking your family and friends to invest in your children’s future by offering financial support. In addition to this, you can check with your church to determine if they can offer support as well.
If you are considering a Christian school education for your child, don’t let the cost deter you! If this is a priority for your family, considering the above options should help you to reach your goal for your child’s education. There will be many benefits to a Christian education and while the cost may seem high, there are ways to help your family afford
“In the light of our present day educational systems the idea of Church controlled education may appear to some as inefficient. However, the pioneering done in Virginia under the direction of the Established Church serve4 as a good example for the American educational ideal” (Duffy, 1946).
College is incredibly expensive for students who are paying out of pocket and for students taking out loans. Financial stability has gradually become an issue with college students and families; General Education classes have taken up a great role. Taking General Education courses means that students will be spending far more money than necessary. According to finAid.org, students would be saving a lot more money by completing General Education Requirements at a community college. In other words, General Education courses amount to higher tuition. Higher tuition will then become loans, which will soon become college dept. Also mentioned on FniAid.org,
A company called Creative Learning Center, a fictitious company is selected for the purpose of this integrative learning project. Creative Learning Center is a child care services who also offer extended care that incorporates Christian-based curriculum for children from toddlers age to five years old. The mission of the Creative Learning Center is to provide first-rate child care services in a warm, safe and nurturing environment while reinforcing a child’s intellectual, mental and physical development. The Creative Learning Center takes a Christian-based team approach utilizing experienced and skilled staff whose profession is nurturing and educating the youth. The target market place for Creative Learning Center is the middle to upper class households with two incomes. This target group has two parents working and need day care and after school care services that can accommodate their schedule. This targeted group will have the income for child care services and is willing to spend more to get quality care and academic enrichment for their children. Since Creative Learning Center’s values is based on Christian beliefs, the company will also offer grant program for those home in the lower income bracket. Creative Learning Center believe that low-income children show have the same opportunity as the children from middle to upper class income households in developmental enrichment activities.
Seventeen to nineteen percent of the fifty percent of children who are in early education programs are in head start. Head start was created in 1965 and is the largest financed early education in the United States. Although many say that head start is a great tool to get students ready for school there are some mixed evidence on both of it. Head start has not shown any improvement on the math skills. There is only a limited research on the impact of making a teacher and student relationship. It has shown that it helped with the students who have special needs on their attention abilities. Children who went to head start did have a more positive school readiness then the one who did not go to Head
Webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk, (2014). [ARCHIVED CONTENT] Key stage 2 | Religious education | Subjects | Key stages 1 & 2 | National Curriculum. [online] Available at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100202100434/http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/key-stages-1-and-2/subjects/religious-education/keystage2/index.aspx [Accessed 22 Apr. 2014].
Those these other Christian religions made significant progress, Catholicism still intertwined itself deeply with the educational system. Unlike other countries who have prohibited rel...
Another factor parents may not look into when finding a preschool is the curriculum that will be taught. “Despite decades of federal, state, and local programs intended to support young children’s preparation for schooling, children from low-income families continue to begin formal schooling at a disadvant...
Shelly and Kenneth will offer to make arrangement for the child to attend other churches so that the child will have the opportunities to development their own belief. Shelly stated that they will help the child to get as much information on the religions that they are seeking.
Making college courses more available at Brunswick High School, can make college as a whole, more affordable. For example, a student that enrolls in Post-Secondary Classes can earn college credits in high school without having to pay the outrageous cost of those same classes in college. The more money you can save in college the better, a lot of students need a surplus of money, and taking some college classes in high school will allow a student to have this abundance of money. Having extra money can really help a student get through college. The students in college need money for things like, dorm fees, book fees, transportation and many other costly things. This portion of an article written shows that not only tuition is expensive but a students attending college would need a good amount of spending money, “Going to college is an expensive venture. While tuition costs are clearly printed on schools' websites and in catalogs, the amount of spending money a college student needs may be difficult to determine.” (Karen Frasier) college funding can really add up.
"What should I do?", is the question many parents are asking when wondering if they should raise their kids in a faith-based community. Yes, you would think that it's a simple yes or no answer. The truth is that there is much more reasoning behind the yes or no that parents ultimately decide. There are many reasons for either decision, all of which make sense in their own way. If you decide that yes you should raise them in a faith-based community, it does have its benefits. Faith-based communities teach important values in life such as caring, self dependence, and many life morals. It helps to teach the kids to help the community and even reach out and help others. Raising your child in a faith-based community should not be done because the negative effects far out weigh the positives.
Child care on campuses are staffed by highly trained teachers with classes that “educational enrichment and child care for children from infancy through preschool” (Douglas). Low-income children with this opportunity have a great amount of support and this offers a chance of them continuing to do well in school. These children often need early education to keep them from getting behind later on in school. This support can help to break the cycle of poverty because “children significantly benefit from quality early education, and that children of college graduates are in turn more likely to attend college” (Garcia). The children are less likely to grow up in poverty if their parents are able to finish college as their parents will be able to get a good paying job to continue to support their children’s
One of my favorite passages in "Pedagogies of the Sacred" is "It is not that (post)modernity's avowed secularism has no room for the sacred… it is rather that it profits from a hierarchy that conflates Christianity with good tradition while consigning 'others' to the realm of bad tradition" (p. 296). The sacred is troubled in its juxtaposition with modern "secular" societies, which have largely exiled religious pedagogy from mainstream society. In many ways modernity rejects religious pedagogy as laughable, as more conspiratorial mumbo-jumbo than actual pedagogy. But, the author makes the point that "some of [the self's] most formative categories - migration, gender and sexuality, experience, home, history, and memory - can be made intelligible
The education of children has existed since the beginning of time as parents have taught and molded their children into the young adults they desired them to be. Initial training of children was not in a formal setting, although history would see numerous settings, purposes, and methodological changes. Philosophies of education have also changed through the years as various voices have seemed to grasp the purpose of educating the next generation, thus laying out objectives to reach those goals of teaching children.
Children living in poverty have significant effects on their development. Poverty begins to affect children’s cogitative development early on in the child’s life, reasons why it is noticeable at an early age is because they do not have the learning experiences they need before start attending school, causing them to fall behind, plus leaving them to be unsuccessful for the rest of their life. School readiness is the biggest factor in determining whether a child can escape from poverty or whether they will continue to struggle with learning throughout their life. Interventions during the early childhood could prevent some of these effects from occurring or influences their achievement. Interventions have been used by child care centers to improve
Curriculum of public schools cannot use God 's Word as its standard for truth. Christian schools can guide students through the deeper questions of faith and life by equipping students to recognize the Lordship of Christ in all subject areas and even more in teaching the processes that go along with responding and living in obedience to God 's call. The Christian educator can help to produce citizens that can be transforming as they influence the societies that the students will become a part of as they enter the "real"