Why Bios is a Private Christian School

Why Bios is a Private Christian School

Bios is a Christian school foremost in that we have the primary purpose of proclaiming the gospel. Second, we educate our students out of the desire to support the parents in the training of their children, not to support the state’s goals or the state’s low academic standards. Next, our students are educated in a Christian worldview. And last, we provide a broad range of skills involving math, critical reading, writing, computers, and arts to allow our students to choose among many career options for their future.

Absolutely religion neutral is the stance that government (and charter) schools have to take by law. They are not allowed to favor or teach about a religion unless it is within the state’s goals of instructing their students about particular religions. Conversely we Christians do not want the state schools to teach about Christ. Five or six years ago our family took a summer trip to Great Britain. While visiting I had the opportunity of spending an afternoon with a principal of a public school in Wales who is a Christian. During the tour he explained that by British Law, Christianity is a required subject to be taught in the public schools in Wales. He further explained that he was one of the few Christians who taught about the Bible in the area schools. Instead, non-Christians daily taught students across Britain their erroneous versions of the Bible. It is wrong to have non-Christians teaching about the Bible. Distortions, misteachings, and unbelief are the consequences of non-Christians teaching the scriptures. The one true faith of Christianity should only be taught by those who serve the One who created the Bible.

Starting with the idea that nothing is by accident, all is going according to God’s plan to bring glory and honor to himself. A Christian worldview of a loving, forgiving God who expects justice for everyone and good for His people, provides a framework for living and understanding the world we live in. Science, history, math, music, and art are instructed with the view of discovering the secrets of the amazing world He created, while contradicting a world view of attaining knowledge for pride’s sake or just because.

With good intentions, our country’s schools label many, many students by their perceived ability to learn. The idea in the beginning was that if we provide a label then maybe a core or special method of teaching would be discovered, as though these kids had a bad disease to fix. Now, labels are there to give funding and segregate students out of the regular ed program. What we know about learning at Bios is labels have a negative effect. What is effective in student learning is a clearly focused, step-by-step educational program geared to the individual’s needs, taught by experienced teachers.

Writing additional reasons for not being a charter school would be repetitive. While charter schools serve a unique purpose in our culture and it would be far less expensive for our families to educate their children in a charter school model, our ability to educate our students in our quality manner and with our focus on our God, requires us to remain a private school for the future.