Christian Parents’ Concerns and our mission
Christian parents are particularly concerned about:
- The influence of ungodly curriculum, unbelieving teachers and worldly peer pressure on their children;
- The growing drug scene, even in Primary Schools;
- Multi-faith teaching which appears to espouse and promote the practices of any faith except biblical Christianity and Judaism;
- Rapidly increasing incidents of mental and physical violence;
- Their godly influence being steadily, but surely, undermined;
- The plummeting spiritual, moral and academic standards
“Fruit” is an established biblical thermometer for the state of a person’s life and the crop (our children) is showing distinct signs of ravaging by decay. It can no longer be covered up – an hour’s Sunday school per week is no answer to this worldly onslaught on our children.
Faced with these dilemmas, many parents are choosing to withdraw their children from secular education on the basis that public schools have as a foundation, the philosophy of secular humanism, which is at best, diminishes God and the need for biblical teaching, and at worst is anti-Christian. They are determined to see their children study wholesome curriculum in a controlled and godly environment, where high academic standards and godly character are the norm.
There is an urgent demand for this sort of education.
Kent Christian School is established to fill the need
The new biblical Christian Schools are independent, and express their independence in many ways.
One manifestation of this independence is in the selecting of curriculum materials.
Some prepare their own materials from scratch, utilising any resources available, screening out unsuitable content, the material being delivered by a teacher standing at the front. Others rely on the staff of the staff of the school for Christian input, whilst following the same secular curriculum as any public school. Still others use curriculum which is biblical and Christian from foundation to roof at primary level, but stop when the children reach secondary age because of the lack of higher level material or because of the necessity of studying for public secondary examinations.
However, there is a tried and tested biblical Christian curriculum, used by approximately half the Christian schools in the UK, which covers all age groups from Pre-School to first year tertiary students and does not need specialist subject teachers.