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Originally posted by blu_theatrics:
My son is three and will be four in December. I have thought long and hard about it and I have decised that I want him to go to a private Christian school right know and really through abotu juniour high.
The thing is however, I don't want him to miss out on thing like sports by being in a smaller private school. I am no thinking about just keeeping him there until about 5th or sixth grade.
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Blu-theatrics, I really commend you for taking such an interest in your child's education at that age! I don't know where you live, but I'm in Atlanta and there are several smaller, predominately A-A private Christian schools that have sports teams. There are also a couple of huge Catholic schools who's sports teams consistantly rank in the top 5 in the state.
My sister sent all of her kids to private Christian schools (in another city, but still in GA). When my nephew was jr. high age he wanted to play football, but there was no team at his school. Evidently there is some law (either in GA or this town) where if the private school does not provide the service (not just sports but things like band and speech therapists too, then the public school must provide it to the child in private school. My nephew was able to play football for the jr high he would have gone to had he been in public school. You may want to see if this is possible in your city/state. My neices & nephew's school was also predom. white, so my sister made sure they did things outside of school that put them around other African-Americans.
I hope everything works out with William C.!
