“Valley Lutheran goes above and beyond their Mission Statement. The educators do an outstanding job to motivate and challenge each student to grow and succeed. These values are instilled in our children for a lifetime. Some parents may think that I am “sheltering” my child because I am sending them to Valley – that my  children should go to a public or another school environment where it would “strengthen” my child by forcing them to stand up for their own beliefs. But God’s Word does not endorse this viewpoint. It does not say, “Give a child 12 years of training in the way he should not go and he will be made strong by it.” Instead, God’s Words tells us, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”