| Most children throughout history and throughout the world were academically educated by the church. Most parents desire for their children to grow up within the family faith. The hours needed for children to be academically taught is substantial. It has always made sense to combine academic education with religious education and within a spiritual environment. |  |
 | The public-School System educates in a secular environment, seizing 87% of the K-12 students. Often the Public-Schools teach in direct opposition to biblical or religious teaching. Young and impressionable children who go to their church’s Sunday School for one hour a week is overwhelmed by the secular environment for thirty hours a week. |
| The creation story is overwhelmed by the government teaching of evolution. The Church’s moral teaching regarding sex-education is overwhelmed by government secular sex-ed teaching. When little Jonny asks why stealing is wrong; the Public-School teacher is forbidden from referencing the Eighth Commandment, and that is extremely important. |  |
 | There is law in Virginia that mandates that morality is taught in Public Schools. With the complete ban on religion from government, morality has become anything that special interest groups claim. Often extreme sinful views are taught as moral and virtue is mocked or taught as corrupt. |
| There is no doubt that a population of children taught in an atmosphere of religion will have greater faith throughout life than a community taught in an atmosphere of learning and living their religious principles. |  |
 | I encourage everyone to attend the graduation of a Christian school. These graduations are full of student stories of how the school encouraged and built-up faith in the students. Graduate after graduate thanks private school staff for their participation in their Christian walk. While most Christian schools value academic education; they are profoundly more interested in creating an ethical and moral person walking out a lifetime of faith. |
| For six hours a day, thirty hours a week, 180 days a year, 1,080 hours a year, thirteen years, for a grand total of over 14,000 hours over the K-12 years; you are in school. These years are some of the most fundamental years of learning foundational principals. A student with teachers that are directed and eager to teach religious principles during academic education will learn more religious values compared to a student at a school forbidden from teaching religion. |  |
 | 14,000 hours is a long time. Indeed, hearing a sermon for one hour a week for sixty years will result in greater knowledge of the Bible and religious principles; however, that is only about 3,000 hours. K-12 Christian private education gives more hours of Christian teaching before a child becomes an adult compared to three lifetimes of sermons. |
| At the beginning of Public Education, religion was not banned. The Bible was a common book in the classroom. Many public-school assigned book reports were done on the books of the bible. The teaching of Judeo-Christian derived morality was commonplace. The Bible as the base of morality was the norm. However, starting in roughly the 1960s, the Bible and Biblically based morals were replaced with secular teachings. The teaching of Judeo-Christian morality was replaced with immorality. Every special-interest groups fought to teach all children its set of values. |  |
 | It is calculated that an estimated $1.1 trillion of funds derived from taxes from tax-payers are spent on education within America every year. There are roughly 110 million households; therefore, every household pays an average of $10,000 in education taxes every year for life. Many people want to think that only the rich will pay the taxes; however, when the poor or middle-class buy from the rich, the tax is in the transaction. Everyone pays real-estate taxes whether directly or through rent. The only place the apartment complex can get the money to pay city real-estate taxes is from rent. While the rich carry a higher tax burden, seldom does a poor household education-tax burden fall below $5,000 a year for life. |
| It is estimated that K-12 Public Schools educate roughly 50 million children with about $750 Billion (the rest going to higher education) equating to approximately $15,000 per K-12 student per year. It is tough for parents to be forced to pay so much in taxes and be offered such a significant benefit to turn it down. After taxing a citizen so much and using the money to offer such a substantial benefit of spending $15,000 a year on the education of the citizen’s minor children; the citizen must have considerable objections to the contents of the benefit to turn it down. |  |
 | Roughly 13% of parents turn down that benefit and pays for their children’s education on their own. The other 87% of parents accepting the benefit have a wide variety of opinions on the Public-School System. Some parents and students profoundly want out, some have moderate objections, and others love their Public School. Studies and actual results of school Choice plans have shown a significant majority of parents send their children to religiously based schools when they can escape their Public-School. |
| The Supreme Court has stated multiple times by Justices across the political spectrum that Christian schools are considered church relating to the First Amendment protections. The Supreme Court has established over numerous opinions that the government may not infringe religion. |  |
