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What makes Christian Education different?

Sometimes parents enrol their child in our school with false expectations.  Expectations that no school or classroom can fully meet.  They expect that their children will be perpetually happy at school, find assignments and learning easily manageable, rake in straight A’s and have a teacher that will comply with everything the student desires.

In his book, Dying for Change, Leith Anderson comments that we are living in an era of high expectations and low loyalty.  John Smit, Springbok Captain, echoes these sentiments in his book Captain in the Cauldron:  “People support the Boks because they are proud of their country, because we’re a champion brand, and their emotion gets rewarded every weekend when we win.  But if you don’t reward emotion, it becomes a double-edged sword.”

So how can we as a Christian school devoted to ‘Excellence in Education to the Glory of God’ ensure that parents are not disappointed when their unrealistic expectations are not met?  The best way, I think, is to clearly communicate what we’re about as a school, what we believe and how we implement programmes to produce our desired results.  To this end, we are launching The King's University, a facility for parents, student teachers and other interested parties to enrol in our distance-learning course on the Philosophy of Christian Education (ACSI).  The course is divided into modules which can be completed as stand-alone credits for those wishing to study specific areas.