Hard to believe that we are almost done with 2011-2012 school year. It has been a rough year for all of us. We have gone through cancer with several friends here at school and in our own family life. We have watched our economy tank....Boeing leave Wichita....watched as jobs bottomed out and food prices soar. This has been a hard year to raise a family, feed a family and send our children to private school.
Sending our children to private school has not been a choice of privilege, but a choice of sacrifice. We do not pay out for tuition because we are trying to keep up with "Jones" (who are in debt up to their eyeballs and their entire life style is built on a flimsy deck of cards). We pay for private education because we have a set of core values that we want taught to our children. We want a Christian based school, that our children will have lived out before them. It is not just about curriculum....it is also about all the little things...watching a teacher bow their head before they eat lunch, a chapel service that is dedicated to praying for a family who dealing with cancer; listening to a 5 years old recite their very first memory verse. We pay tuition so that our children are surrounded by Jesus, there is no other way to say it. We pay tuition so that our children have every opportunity to know God, through us their parents, through their teachers, through their friends and through their school. Overprotective? Maybe....but I want to grow strong children that will have a fighting chance with their faith out in the world. I realize God has no grandchildren, only first born, and I want my three children to have the best path to God I can provide.
So we pay tuition because we want strong christian, faith based, Christ centered world view, adults. I think it is a bargain.....
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