I am not going to say much. As a matter of fact, it is from a lack of time, not a lack of interest. Emily finished driver's ed this week. We were very happy that she passed this mandatory (and expensive) class.
Speaking of which...
"As many as eighty-five to ninety percent of professing Christians send their children to the government for their education. That is simply an astonishing figure considering the fact that the Christian community fought mandatory government education tooth-and-nail for it’s first fifty years of existence. Since then we have gone from fighting against government schools to fighting for them and implying that those who fight against them are fundamentalists, anti-intellectuals, and racists."
"No academic skepticism, no secularist authors, no blatant materialism can so undermine the spiritual life of the country like the completely secularized training of the child under the authority of the state"
The preceding statements were taken from the following post;
http://www.voddiebaucham.org/vbm/Blog/Entries/2009/6/25_Top_Five_REasons_Not_to_Send_Your_Kids_Back_to_Govt._School.html.
Compelling arguments?
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Nothing speaks to public education like the election of Obama....This would never have happened without the dumbing down of America. Thank the Lord we still have the option of Christian education and home schools....at least, for now....
We have the option for private education but are we fighting to keep it? It seems to me that most Christians that I talk with see nothing wrong with public education.
I think that is why it is difficult to find "church people" who have a Biblical Worldview rather than a secular worldview.
Whoa. Definitely something to think about. Lately, I've been convinced that I just don't have it in me to home school. Perhaps that's not a valid argument after all.
And what about being salt and light to those around us if we isolate ourselves and cut ourselves off from contact with public schools?
I could say a lot about being the salt and light to those around us! I am going to keep it short though.
Kids go to school to be educated (indoctrinated), not to teach. I know that we expect a lot of our kids but do you think they are ready to combat the teachings of the world when we haven't instructed them ourselves?
One of the things that surprised me when my kids were in public school was that they fully believed in creation and they believed evolution. For some reason they never saw (on their own) that those things were mutually exclusive. They knew that man and animals were created on the same day (we had taught them that) but they also believed that dinosaurs lived millions of years before man.
I want my kids to be the salt and light so we are teaching them so that they will have the salt and light to share! Every day they have more opportunities. The key is to send them when they are ready.
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