Question Of The The Day....

[Miss Daisy]

I have a friend who's a teacher at local Christian school and says a lot of her students she's had through the years had behavioral or learning problems that were correctly diagnosed through public school system and parents wouldn't accept diagnosis so sent them to the Christian school instead. She said the Christian school didn't have resources or personnel to deal with these kids individually on a daily basis for extended periods of time and the parents just blamed continued problems with the kids on the teachers. Not Christian parents so Godly principles weren't taught at home, parents expecting teachers to do it all. And would then send them to another school, thus repeating the cycle at another school.

[HappyChristian]

I have a friend who's a teacher at local Christian school and says a lot of her students she's had through the years had behavioral or learning problems that were correctly diagnosed through public school system and parents wouldn't accept diagnosis so sent them to the Christian school instead. She said the Christian school didn't have resources or personnel to deal with these kids individually on a daily basis for extended periods of time and the parents just blamed continued problems with the kids on the teachers. Not Christian parents so Godly principles weren't taught at home, parents expecting teachers to do it all. And would then send them to another school, thus repeating the cycle at another school.

It's true that most Christian schools are not set up for children with health issues. I have a friend who had kids with problems - one had a brain tumor and one had epilepsy.  The one with the tumor was gung-ho in the mornings, but by noonish was dragging. The one with epilepsy had a hard time in the mornings, but by afternoon was better.  The school couldn't work with this, because all of the kids have to be doing the same thing at the same time.  So the best answer was home-schooling.  She could tailor their day according to their needs.  Her boy has gone on to Glory (a couple of years ago), and her daughter is getting ready to graduate (interestingly, after being taken out of school, she began having less and less seizures...stress brings them on, and it was pretty stressful for her).  She herself is graduating this next month from nursing school, inspired by her son and his nurses to try and help others.  So it worked out well for her. It doesn't always for everyone.

 

The reactions of these parents is a good reason for a Christian school to be very selective in their students...