Posted on Aug 16, 2022
Group plans to put Christian schools inside Ohio churches and allow kids to attend with public...
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A new, private school has been commissioned in Columbus, but it’s not like many others. What makes this one different is the elementary school is housed in a church, in a low-income neighborhood.
This is a pilot project for the Center for Christian Virtue. And the group said it’s just the first of many that will use church facilities for a private Christian school.
Inside the walls of the Memorial Baptist Church on the west side of Columbus, classrooms normally used for Sunday church services are being readied for kindergarten through second grade students who have been going to local public schools. That's according to Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue, a conservative Christian organization. He said seven churches came together to create this new model school.
“So many of these kids were not having their needs met in their local public schools. They were not learning to read and they were in unsafe environments and these churches stepped up to say ‘we’re going to help these children’ and CCV is using this as a model to start similar schools all over the state and Lord willing, the nation,” Baer said.
This is a pilot project for the Center for Christian Virtue. And the group said it’s just the first of many that will use church facilities for a private Christian school.
Inside the walls of the Memorial Baptist Church on the west side of Columbus, classrooms normally used for Sunday church services are being readied for kindergarten through second grade students who have been going to local public schools. That's according to Aaron Baer, president of the Center for Christian Virtue, a conservative Christian organization. He said seven churches came together to create this new model school.
“So many of these kids were not having their needs met in their local public schools. They were not learning to read and they were in unsafe environments and these churches stepped up to say ‘we’re going to help these children’ and CCV is using this as a model to start similar schools all over the state and Lord willing, the nation,” Baer said.
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IDK if this pilot program will get off the ground or not, because these kids still have to go back to the same environment where they were born. Are the churches prepared to bus these kids back home so that they don't run into neighborhood thugs or be enticed to try drugs, or worse. It wouldn't surprise me, if most of these kids come from a one parent household and older siblings. It will be interesting to follow up on this program. Thank you for sharing PO1 Wm Chip Nagel.
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That way they exclude people in the name of religion. The all inclusive God has to be expelled from the church because we don’t like having everyone come through the doors
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“Part of the virtue of a public education is exposure to people of different backgrounds, exposure to different viewpoints. No education is complete without exposure to the realities of history in American society and ideally, a range of different viewpoints. Whether that is something these schools would accomplish seems questionable. But, of course, that would depend on what they intend to teach,” Carey said.
Baer said an established private Christian school in Columbus has shared its curriculum with the new school. And he rejected the separation of church and state argument.
“There’s religious teaching happening in public schools right now, indoctrinating kids into Marxism and really dangerous world views so they need to get their religion out of the public schools first,” Baer said.
Baer said there are 20 more schools planned throughout the state, similar to this one, that could open next year. And he said it’s his hope that the idea of putting schools in churches will expand even more in the future.
“On every corner that you see a church, we want to see a school as well,” Baer said."
..."“Part of the virtue of a public education is exposure to people of different backgrounds, exposure to different viewpoints. No education is complete without exposure to the realities of history in American society and ideally, a range of different viewpoints. Whether that is something these schools would accomplish seems questionable. But, of course, that would depend on what they intend to teach,” Carey said.
Baer said an established private Christian school in Columbus has shared its curriculum with the new school. And he rejected the separation of church and state argument.
“There’s religious teaching happening in public schools right now, indoctrinating kids into Marxism and really dangerous world views so they need to get their religion out of the public schools first,” Baer said.
Baer said there are 20 more schools planned throughout the state, similar to this one, that could open next year. And he said it’s his hope that the idea of putting schools in churches will expand even more in the future.
“On every corner that you see a church, we want to see a school as well,” Baer said."
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