Before I discuss schools, let’s cover some “‘”forbidden topics.”
I have a good family culture, one worth defending. I want my kids to be supported in choosing that. Further, I want my kids to remain children for a good while. I don’t want them to be confronted with adult decisions about sexuality, pornography, life-changing friends or situations. In short, I want them to first learn to resist the false promises of a noisy world that will draw them away from the peace, joy, satisfaction, and ultimate purpose that I have in my life.
Now, what can I say about schools?
School and educational success is a direct reflection of how fully teachers support or elevate your family culture and educational values.
The harder your school fights your families values, whether they be educational, discipline or religious, the worse the education will be for your child.
If your children have a consistent message from you, from teachers, from the discipline/respect structure of the school and from their friends, the greater the chance that your children will know what you believe, why, and how important it is to a life well-lived.
I have six graduates from Holy Rosary Academy. I have three children who will soon be in the 4th, 9th and 12th grades. When you talk with my kids, you will recognize a part of me in all of them. They are all different, but healthy, happy, productive, unconfused thinkers and believers.
For my children’s education, you could say I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. I have done my part for my children by first living a vibrant faith, and also sacrificing my time, treasure and talent to their school that has ever been my partner in raising children who know me, who I know, and who, most importantly, know themselves.
Tempus Fugit. Choose your school wisely.
Glen Biegel is a technology security professional, Catholic father of nine, husband to a saint, and politically active conservative.
