Starting A Christian School Summary

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A.A. Baker is writing this book to warn and encourage its readers to thoughtfully consider multiple factors before starting a Christian school. The author gives insightful topics to prayerfully reflect upon when making determinations as to the direction a school chooses to go such as class sizes, teachers, standards, curriculum, philosophy, leadership, and finances.
Baker discusses in several chapters how to successfully promote and grow one’s school and avoid destructive pitfalls. Proper expansion with model examples and financial stewardship methods are given all under the foundation of successfully beginning a Christian school.
The author, A.A. Baker, repeatedly states the importance of not starting a Christian school unless God calls one to do so. (p16) The biblical mindset needed to begin a Christian school is a fundamental aspect to its success- success as measured by its purpose: evangelizing children. (p23)
Baker also points out a major weakness many Christian schools find themselves in –cowering to progressive ideals to generate higher attendance. (p59) This idea that lowering standards or expectations will help the Christian school reach more students has had adverse effects on the very essence of why the school was started. Baker maintains that the best way to grow a school is by …show more content…

While Pensacola Christian certainly is exceptional in its training of teachers and leaders, it is not the only means and more information about other avenues of receiving this training could have been given so training could be obtained closer to an individual’s home or in a more convenient manner. (Chapter 7) Another area of weakness is that more data could have been used to support both the positive and negative aspects of the decision making results. Too many variables could have been the result of only one such

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