Training Up a Child: Comparing Public Education to Parental Education

I was raised in the Protestant Reformed Churches and educated, kindergarten through twelfth grade, in our PR Christian schools.  Following high school, I spent four years at a Christian college.  When I later returned to school to get my teacher certification, I attended a public university, where I was required to do my teacher assisting and my practice teaching in a public school.  Getting my classroom experience in a public school would certainly not have been my first choice.  It was a...