Can’t wait to hear your post, Eric. I was thinking mainly public schools when I wrote this because Christian schools are so much harder to categorize. Each Christian school is an entity in itself and thus some are very strong and some are really struggling – and each one has different strengths & weaknesses. But I’m very interested to hear your thoughts on some common issues (which I know there are many.)

I’ve rewritten this response so many times I think it will now start a post on my site!

My first response was: I agree with both of your points above but I’d add a third and maybe fourth.

#3 Christians aren’t engaging in the system to the extent needed to institute change. The amount of salt and light in the system is too easily diluted.

#4 Those Christians that are in the system aren’t supported enough by the church at large.

Then I thought more about it… got pulled into my own writing/research mode, sat on the rooftop and thought/prayed about it for a while.

The question you pose is one I find fascinating for several reasons.

For starters, it’s pretty broad… you don’t specify which type of education, Christian or secular. They are very different systems and my first thoughts were that there were very different things wrong with each of the “systems.” The more I thought about it I wondered if it were as true as it seemed at first glance? I think both are struggling with the question “How then shall we teach?” The secular system is spending great resources to build pedagogy and curricula to answer that question based on their own anti-God worldview. As Christians we tend to reject that curriculum or at least do what we can to counter the worldview that it’s built upon but we accept the pedagogy. Pedagogy isn’t worldview neutral!

Are Christian schools using pedagogy that removes God from the classroom?

Now there’s a question to keep you awake at night.

I think this is long enough for a response. Time to draft a post, write a chapter.

As for abandoning God in our school system…….that point is made every day when there is far more cursing of Him, than praying to Him.