“Where Do I Send My Kids to School?”
Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Is there a truly best option for where to send your kids to school? What if one environment works well for one child, but doesn't pan out for another child? Danny and John open up about how they made the best education choices for their own kids. Jim Daly then chats with Dr. Ken Wilgus on how parents can help a kid who's struggling in school.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
| 0:07.3 | That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called |
| 0:12.1 | Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges |
| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.8 | You know, one of the biggest choices as a mom or dad that you're going to make is where you send your kids to school or how you send them. Maybe they're going to stay in the home. How do you |
| 0:40.9 | decide what's best for them? I'm John Fuller, joined by the head of our parenting team, Dr. Danny |
| 0:46.4 | Danny, you and your wife very seriously took the education of your kids. What went through |
| 0:53.6 | your minds? |
| 0:54.2 | As we were choosing, we were going to send them. |
| 0:56.9 | You know, word of mouth. |
| 0:57.9 | We had heard about a wonderful school in town. |
| 1:01.6 | So we were kind of lucky with that. |
| 1:03.1 | They said there were a lot of Christian teachers. |
| 1:06.3 | It's a great environment, a classical education. |
| 1:09.2 | In a wait list. |
| 1:10.0 | In a wait list. And so I enrolled my daughter two days after she was born. |
| 1:15.0 | Are you kidding me? |
| 1:15.9 | Put her on the waiting list and we barely got in. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:19.0 | When she got into kindergarten. |
| 1:21.0 | But really what we did is we also talked to real estate agents in the area, what they recommended, what they had heard. And then other families |
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