Will your children believe in Jesus when they graduate from high school?

Homeschooled: 94%
Public Schooled: 15%

94% of homeschoolers keep the faith and 93% continue to attend church after the high school years. But a shocking 75% to 85% of Christian children sent to public school drop out of church, and do not hold a Christian worldview after high school graduation.

By grade eight, the average homeschooled student performs four grade levels above their public and private school counterparts.

A background in teaching is not necessary; in fact, "home educated students' test scores remained between the 80th and 90th percentiles, whether their mothers had a college degree or did not complete high school."

What does God say about education?

Homeschooling is the most Biblical form of education. God addresses parents as the educators of their own children:

"And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up."
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

"All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children."
- Isaiah 54:13

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
- Proverbs 22:6

Jesus said: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher."
- Luke 6:39, 40

"Learn not the way of the heathen."
- Jeremiah 10:2

"He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm."
- Proverbs 13:20

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Zan Tyler, Author of 7 Tools for Cultivating Your Child's Potential, reported that new research reveals 92% of children from Christian homes will reject Jesus:

Zan writes, "I spoke this winter at Sally Clarkson's WholeHearted Mother Conference in Dallas on "Seven Tools for Cultivating Your Child's Potential." As I discussed tool number four (Developing a Christian Worldview), I gave some of these same startling statistics. One mother sought me out after the workshop and informed me that her husband works for Josh McDowell Ministry. She said the statistic they are now using for evangelical children (actually teens and young adults) abandoning the faith is 92 percent. 92 percent! That is catastrophic."   

Did you know the latest study by Dr. Brian Ray discovered 94% of children educated at home will keep their faith in Jesus?

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85% of children from Christian homes that attend public schools for 12 years will reject Christ by high school graduation.

 

Dr. Robert Simonds of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) has spent over 35 years teaching in Public schools.  He has more experience than just about anyone.   Dr. Simonds contacted parents of church children who went K-12* in public schools (in 1990) and found that 85% of all those children left their church and faith by 12th grade.  

 

The Southern Baptist Council on Family Life reported to the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention that 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return; http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200406/200406030.asp - We acknowledge that this study took into account all forms of education, but we know that most Baptists (80-90%) send their kids to public schools.

 

We hope that this information will help you see why we feel this message is vital.  We will not change the minds of everyone, but we know that children taught at home with the Bible as the foundation to their education have the best chance to not only keep their faith, but maintain a strong Christian worldview throughout their lifetime.  For more information on the children that keep their faith who have been homeschooled, visit www.nheri.org.

 

Percentages affect peoples thoughts, but it is not about the percentages, it is about what God has said how we should raise our children.  He is not silent about a child's education.  Education is not neutral.  It is either for Christ or against. 

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness". 2 Timothy 3:15