We are pleased to offer our answers to the related questions
- Why Christian education?
- Why Denver Christian Schools?
Why Christian Education?
There are many reasons why investing in Christian education for your child is a good choice for Christian parents. We offer two key reasons.
First, in a Christian school, your child is taught from an explicitly Christian perspective. Curriculum and instruction are not faith-neutral. Instead, all teaching is shaped by the worldview of the teacher. That worldview either acknowledges and celebrates the God who created and rules the cosmos or it elevates human reason, wisdom, and independence to the place of God. In a Christian school, curriculum and instruction affirm and enrich the Christian perspective that your child experiences at home and at church.
Second, a Christian school provides the opportunity for your child to form deep, positive bonds with Christian teachers and friends. This benefit is important at every age; as the questions your child asks about faith and about God change, so do the level of support and the nature of the guidance he or she needs to increasingly articulate and embrace a personal faith. The opportunity to grapple meaningfully with tough issues of life and faith, in daily conversation with Christian friends and guided and supported by Christian teachers, is of inestimable value as your child grows and matures toward a young man or woman ready for college and for life.
Why Denver Christian Schools?
At Denver Christian Schools, we emphasize the power of the church, the home, and the school, working together, to shape a child's world and life view. Here, your child will discover excellent academics, the seamless integration of faith and learning, and an involved, caring Christian community.
Denver Christian Schools has a long-established reputation for academic excellence. Our students consistently score above state and national averages in standardized tests such as Measures of Academic Progress® and the ACT and SAT. More than 99% of our high school students graduate, and approximately 95% go on to some form of higher education.
Denver Christain is also known for its distinctive approach to faith and learning. Although we teach Bible as a specific and deliberate curricular component, and we also organize and implement many activities designed specifically to encourage and support faith development in our students (e.g., daily devotions, chapel, Friday Options), we work hard to integrate faith and learning seamlessly together both inside and outside of the classroom. Because we believe that God speaks to and works within the whole person and because we believe that faith encompasses all of life, we avoid labeling some things as “sacred” and others as “secular.” Rather, we seek to ensure that our faith perspective permeates and shapes all that we do and are.
Because we understand that one of the most critical influences in a child's spiritual development is the opportunity to develop strong relationships with believing adults, we seek in all things to walk both with and before students as we ought—to love and care both for and about them, and to let them see us and invite them to join us as we celebrate our world’s beauty and exclaim in awe at our Creator God, acknowledge the world's pain and recognize our own faithlessness, and proclaim the salvation and healing that God offers in Jesus Christ.
For more information about why Christian education and why Denver Christian Schools, please see the following:
The Case for Christian Education, by James K.A. Smith
Why Christian High School? ...a view from a Christian educator
Why Denver Christian High School? ...a view from a parent