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How to Love Your Local Public School

Even if you have kids in private education—or no kids at all—you can be the hands and feet of Christ on campus.

Recent years have seen a large shift away from public education in America. Beyond private school options, charter schools are popping up across the country, and homeschool curriculum options are expanding. As a public school teacher and a Christian, I’ve empathized with friends as they pray and toil over the weighty, complex question of how to educate their kids.

I believe we can honor God in any schooling choice. Are you loving Christ? Are you caring for your neighbor as yourself? Are you discipling your children? Parents living within these biblical guardrails have much freedom to discern God’s specific will for their circumstances, including where they send their kids to school.

Butit’simportanttorealizethatourindividualchoiceshavecommunalconsequences.Asenrollmentdropsacrosspublicschooldistricts,whatstudentsremain,andwhathappenstotheireducation?Howdoesourabsenceaffectthemostvulnerablewithintheneighborhood?Christianscanandshouldsupportpublicschoolsevenifwehavekidsenrolledelsewhere—ornokidsat