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Q: What are other home school families doing about college?

 

A: Many home educating families are minimizing contact time with ungodly influences using:

  • Credit by Examination (CLEP, DSST, Edison, Excelsior, AP)
  • Dual Enrollment (high school & college)
  • Continuing Education Courses
  • •Distance Learning
  • Portfolio Assessment for College Credit•
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While these are effective in minimizing contact time with ungodly influences, they typically aim at accomplishing a secular education and do not ensure a Christian education. The world needs more Christians that think like Christians, and that begins with a thoroughly Christian education, an education which has a Christian starting point, Christian points-of-contact along the way, a Christian method of presentation, and which contains a Christian message throughout.

In fact,using the above secular strategies, to accomplish the same goals as the world in the same way as the world, results in minimizing, homogenizing & secularizing the student's education while accommodating the culture and separating families (in the long run) instead of Biblically transforming professions, strengthening families spiritually, educationally and economically, and deliberately glorifying God in both the means and the end.

A Few Underlying Assumptions

It is helpful to notice some of the unspoken assumptions that young people and parents believe with regard to their strategy in accomplishing college learning. Each of these are easily proven incorrect.

1. You can’t develop your own college courses & curriculum.
2. Institutions know what your young adult should learn.
3. U.S. Dept. of Education authority is needed to demonstrate competence to an employer.
4. A college education must cost much more than its value.
5. Christian colleges are good places to learn a Biblical worldview.
6. Politically correct methods are better than Biblical methods.

Some Elaboration

Perhaps you have further noticed that with the above strategies:
1. Learning is minimized by aiming at tests, grades and degrees instead of undisputable competence and glorifying God through Biblical means, content, and ends.
2. Learning is homogenized by one curriculum fits all v. individualized curriculums. This is rooted in the evolutionary treatment of man as a chemical machine.
3. Learning is secularized where it does not acknowledge God in the details and where it does not have His corresponding culture transforming result.
4. Most college arrangements separate families by location, content, or simply lack of family involvement in the formative educational years.

The solution is to develop your own Christian college curriculum and collaborate with others doing the same where helpful!

 

 

 

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