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Originally posted by Sir Krustin:
Speaking purely about the childrens issues, I feel it's better (even froma christian viewpoint) to send them to a public school rather than a private one. I've seen children grow up in both institutions and I feel it's better to prepare them for life with the rest of the world than segregate them.
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You are Canadian are you not? I don't know how it is in Canada, but in Sydney (where both Ben and I are from) the 'Christian' private schools are generally a lot better than the public ones. (Kings, Trinity etc etc) Nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with schooling. So, careful with the 'advice' about another nations schooling.
Ben, I went to a public high school and then a private Baptist one. One thing I found was that as I was going through it, many kids rebelled against Christianity and the small amounts of doctrine we were exposed to.
There was one subject called Biblical Studies once a week, a pseudo-sermon/motvational talk once a week and that was pretty much it.
The benefit for me personally was there were other preachers kids there. You COULD be a Christian and not feel like a loner, unlike in my Public schools where derision could be commonplace.
Anyhow, many of my contemporaries rejected the church, free from condemnation too. The irony is that two of the most hardcore people against it are now for it. One guy was a Satanist at school, and he's now working full time as a social worker for the Anglican church.
So go figure. How someone is raised seems irrelevent. As Arnabas said, if they end up Christian, all the Bible stuff they get taught as a child will be invaluable. If they don't end up Christian, is it really a big deal?