To subscribe, please fill out and mail this form . As anyone who has ever served on an admissions committee will tell you, parents decide to send their children to Christian schools for a variety of reasons. If you read the application forms or sit across the table from mothers and fathers who wish to enroll their kids, you'll encounter a wide array of factors that prompt them to make this choice.
Some parents select a Christian school based on a sense of obligation or tradition.
In some families the habit is so ingrained that it would be almost unthinkable not to send children to a Christian school. Tradition plays a powerful and positive role in people's lives, but if support for Christian education is based primarily on custom, it represents only the weakest sort of commitment. Other families gravitate to Christian schools because of the problems that plague public schools. In large cities public education often seems to be teetering on the edge of the abyss, and in smaller communities it's often not much better. Compare scores on achievement tests and graduation rates, and the Christian school usually comes out on top.