When listed as one option, public schools lose

 

U.S. states are being surveyed one at a time by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice in order to determine the feelings of residents on school choice.

 

 

Spokesman Paul Diperna says Idaho is the latest of four states that have been checked thus far. "The broad takeaway is that Idaho parents ... want more [alternative school] choices...," he says. "... [W]e've seen overwhelming support for private schools, charter schools, home schooling, and even virtual schools to some extent," Diperna reports.
 
According to a press release, 39 percent of Idahoans would prefer sending their child to a private school; 25 percent, a charter school; and 21 percent, home schooling. If full choices were available, Diperna claims that only 12 percent of Idaho parents would choose the public school system. In other states, he says, that number fluctuates.
 
"... [I]t's been around 19 percent for example in Illinois, 15 percent in Tennessee, and 11 percent in Nevada ...," Diperna details.
 
Those percentages, notes Diperna, come from parents who mostly send their children to public schools either due to a lack of schooling alternatives or the cost.

Does anyone know the reasons why Christians choose to send their children to public schools when it's clearly opposed to Gods will?  Anecdotal opinions are fine, but have there been any respected surveys done?

the ONLY reason my kids are not in a church school.........there is not one within driving distance(less than 25 miles)  if there was they would not be in public school.  p.s.  my wife is a teaching aid in the city  middle school...still would not send kids there if i had any options.

 

McCain is for school vouchers. Nothing like a little healthy competition to make our schools competitive with the rest of the world!

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I send my kids to public schools.  We are fortunate to have schools that do not try to indoctrinate liberalism or theology of any kind for the most part.  There is substantial parental involvement.  The whole school district isn't this way, but my kids schools are acceptable.  The cost benefit analysis simply does not justify the private schools that are available to us locally.  And while we don't formally home school. there is a lot of informal homeschooling going on at my house.

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Does anyone attend a church where the Pastor tells the congregation not to put your children in public schools?  I wonder how many church programs would not be necessary if our children would not be submersed in their humanistic philosophy?