Financing Our Christian Schools (1)
Dykstra examines the financial sustenance of Protestant Reformed schools, emphasizing that parents bear the primary responsibility for supporting Christian education as part of their covenantal obligations to rear their children in the faith. The article grounds parental educational responsibility in biblical passages and the baptismal covenant, arguing that Christian schools are fundamentally parental institutions established and maintained by believing families.
The members of the Protestant Reformed Churches place a very high value on the covenantal instruction of their children. Each year the members of these churches bring up well over ten million dollars to maintain the four high schools and the thirteen grade schools. That huge sum will pay for the utilities, the teacher salaries, the books and supplies that are required to run the schools for one year. This figure does not include a building payment or building remodeling projects that any...
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