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This is the reason we have home schooled our children. While educators forbid any reference to the Christian religion, they push their atheistic worldview (and sometimes a new age worldview) on our children starting in kindergarten. This and the peer pressure that will surround them make a very difficult environment for your child to learn how to confess Jesus in their public life.
Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. - Matthew 10:32
In the high school I grew up in, we were taught a promiscuous sex education. I remember the lady from Planned Parenthood who said something to the effect of, Your parent’s morality is okay for them, but you must make your own decisions for your own life as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody. I forget if the woman said this before or after she put a condom on her nose. No boy will ever admit to being a virgin in most high schools.
My best friend and I also learned enough in the drug education classes to feel comfortable at our first party where marijuana was passed around. In fact, our education included all the uppers and downers, what they looked like and their street names.
Public schools teach the theory of evolution as a fact. This push for evolution is to justify their removal of God from public life. Actually, I believe that it is fine to teach evolution in public schools, what needs to be done is for Christians to demand that they remove the lies from the textbooks. If the educators removed all the lies from the textbooks, there would be no evolution left to teach.
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me [Jesus]: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? - John 5:46-47
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. - Matthew 24:37
If the theory of evolution is a proven fact, why do public schools need to use things proven wrong by scientists in order to teach it? Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells, documents many of the lies used to teach evolution. Evolution is an effective tool used to remove the Lord from your child’s life.
The only thing not allowed in public schools is a discussion of Christianity or the Bible in a positive light; that would be against the law.
A bright child will not learn in a slow class because it will bore him. I heard once that as a child Albert Einstein received poor grades in school, if true it is probably for this same reason. When a class goes to fast for your child, he will not be able to properly learn either. When other children in the classroom misbehave, the teacher may end up spending more time babysitting than actually teaching.
Our children home school for about two to three hours a day. On the tests that they are required to take for the state of Oregon, they generally score in the 90 percentiles on the national average.
Home schoolers have no distractions; parents teach their own children at a level that the child can comprehend. They do not sit for extended periods in a room full of distractions. They receive loving discipline instead of drugs.
It costs about $10,000 per year, for each child in Oregon to receive a public school education. A much better education at a private school costs far less. Look at our national debt and do the math, we are wasting tax dollars and mortgaging our children’s future.
If I told you how little we spent last year home schooling we would have a social worker come to our door.
In the beginning it may seem easier to send your children off to school, yet one day the Lord will ask us if we are faithful stewards. When he looks at us Americans, what will he think?
In our work with troubled young adults, we have found some sad facts. It is common for someone to get a high school diploma and yet, not be able to read it. We had an eighteen-year-old high school graduate who did not know that the body of water she lived thirty minutes away from her whole life was called the Pacific Ocean. We worked with one high school graduate who needed to count with her fingers in order to do basic addition.
Home schoolers in Oregon must test biannually. Up until last year, when the public school was caught, home schooled students were timed when they took the same tests that public school students took untimed. Do not expect public schools to teach your children honesty when the words, "Thou shalt not bear false witness" and "Thou shalt not steal" are banned from the classroom.
In 2007, two of our children tested for the state and they both earned a 99 percentile in the national average, the highest score possible. Our youngest daughter did not miss a single problem (and they still only give a 99%). In 2009, the same children earned a 99 and 96 percentile. The one that tested at 96 took the tenth grade level even though she was in the ninth grade. The lowest score any of our children have ever received was in the low eighties.
"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school."
-Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon (Harmon)
The above quote was in a case where a Texas school district , strip-searched their child looking for signs of paddling, without the parent’s knowledge. The Judge, seems to be saying that this is acceptable behavior for the state.
In some counties, public school officials are openly hostile toward parents. Is it because the state believes that your children are really their property? You can find countless examples of abuse by school officials; you only need to search the web if you are interested.
You do not need to be an expert to know that questionnaires not only gather information, screening tests also teach. As a home schooler your child not only avoids being medicated, he also avoids being subjected to a teacher practicing psychology without a license. In a free country, it is never the role of the government to decide what thoughts and emotions are normal, especially in children.
In a public school, the teacher is no longer the focus of the children's attention. She is now a facilitator who wanders around the room, helping one child here, chatting with another there. She is also using the most irrational teaching methods ever devised by so-called educators: whole language, invented spelling, the new new-math, plus sensitivity training, values clarification, transcendental meditation, cooperative learning, death ed., sex ed., suicide ed. She is very much interested in the child's feelings, his sexuality, his family, his thoughts about death, suicide, abortion, feminism, homophobia, the environment, global warming and world citizenship.
Do you want children that can interact with people of different ages? Do you think that segregating children by age for extended periods of time will help children to adjust socially?
The segregating of children by age and the inability of the public educators to administer discipline makes public schooled children far more vulnerable to peer pressure.
Honor thy father and thy mother … Exodus 20:12
As my children were growing up, I would hear it over and over “Just wait”. My children were well behaved, therefore everyone, parents, friends, people with grown children were trying to warn me that their good behavior wouldn’t last, it couldn’t last. They said that like the rest of them, my children will become rebellious teenagers and that being a protective parent only gives them more reasons to rebel. Children have to rebel, it is in their genes.
It is the year 2009 and I have seven children, one is twelve years old, two are teenagers, four are in there twenties and all of them have always honored their father and mother. We have never had any teenage rebellion. Maybe rebellious teenagers are a product of the public school system. Other parents that we know, homeschoolers with the same worldview, also missed the experience of teenage rebellion.
Yes. Here is what Americans need to do:
1) Get rid of educators who are hostile toward God. The public schools do not need a statement of faith. They just need to renounce their statement of hate.
2) Get rid of the union control (the NEA). They have corrupted our government as well as our schools.
3) Get rid of the government mandates. Our children are not their political pawns.
4) Get the entire psychiatric community out of all our schools. Our children are not their sacrificial offering to the God of Mammon.
5) Get rid of tenure. There are bad teachers out there, so lets fire them.
6) Put a cap on the amount of money that the schools spend on attorney fees. If the educators would stop going beyond their bounds, they should not have to spend millions defending themselves.
7) Forbid unlimited legal proceedings against families who are trying to raise godly children.
While you wait for this to happen, if you love your children, take them out of the public schools.
Eight Reasons for Home Schooling Your Children is available in a longer study on parenting.
Works Cited
Harmon. (n.d.). Abusing kids to see if they are being abused! Retrieved May 10, 2008, from American Family Rights Association: http://www.familyrightsassociation.com
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