Government’s public policy on the christian religious school is enforced in the direction of securement of the educational publicness than the private school’s independence. Therefore the identity and independence of the christian religious schools is very dangerous. The private school law which was revised in 2007 pursues the publicity. democratization, and transparency of the private schools through such as the open trustee system and external auditor. The christian private schools are arguing that this policy is violating the nature of a private body corporate of the school corporate body and it is insisting the government’s function of supervision over the private school but don’t have the support policy for the healthy development of it. The christian private school is asking the re-revision of the private school act and the legislation of the Private School Support Act.
The christian private middle schools are considerably restricted at the right to select the students under the system of standardization. Accordingly they are confronting the strong danger in the direction to realize the idea of building school which educates the students the christian religion. So in the future at the christian religious schools, the before-appliance and after-election which guarantees the religious choice, not the choice by the examination marks should be extended. As a result the freedom to educate the christian faith should be secured. Also the better solution is to transform the christian private school into the autonomous private school. It will be freed from the control of the government and can do the religious education on the ground of the christian world view.
The government asks the christian private schools that the Bible class must be operated in the direction of the religious theology as the liberal arts and the chapel have to be managed in the extra-curriculum and secure the autonomous participation of the students. In this case, the Bible class and Chapel will be seldom managed from the point of the religious education. In order to solve these problems, the christian private schools should recover the right to elect the student and should deeply study the method to fill the religious needs of the students

• 이은선(안양대학교) | Lee, Eun Seon