The Realities and Ministry Philosophy of Full Cost Tuition

By Dan Krause , President
GraceWorks Ministries
As posted on The Christian School Journal
January 31, 2009

Try this experiment. Ask an ardent supporter of public education what’s wrong – from a philosophical, societal good point-of-view – with private Christian schools. Chances are, a top reason you’ll hear is that Christian schools “cherry pick” the wealthiest and highest functioning families in the community, leaving public schools to pick up the pieces with lower income (and therefore lower functioning) students. Of course students in private schools do better, they’ll say; these same higher functioning students would do well - if not better - in public schools. Ipso facto, it’s not what private schools do that makes them successful, it’s the students private schools attract. Public schools, by societal decree, have to service everyone, and therefore cannot achieve the same stellar results as private schools.

Let’s evaluate this argument two ways:
(1) as a statement of reality, and
(2) as a statement of philosophy.

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