I decided to post this letter here because of what I saw on MamaArcher's blog.  http://www.mamaarcher.com/2008/12/exodus-mandate-call-to-dunkirk.html I totally agree with Voddie Baucham and the other people on this video.  I hope you will heed the call on this video to parent with purpose. 

This book is primarily written for parents who want to guard their children’s hearts for Christ. 

Have you noticed how many different programs our public schools offer to our young people?  The public schools now ensure our children a healthy breakfast and assistance with homework afterschool.  They also offer afterschool sports and educational enrichment programs.  It is truly amazing how giving and supportive the schools are to our children.  But have you noticed something that is lacking?  Something that is sacrificed on the altar of “what is good for our children?”  It is us, the parents.  Compulsory education requires that our children leave our care and teaching to be educated by professionals "with our children’s best interest at heart" for at least 7 hours a day roughly from the ages of six to eighteen.  Of course, you have the options of homeschooling or paying for a private school education for your child.  But the National Education Association and Department of Public Instruction would really  like you to utilize their programs; you are paying for it already anyway.  And they are the professionals.  The NEA is also actively pursuing more restrictive laws for homeschoolers across the country and would like to have the government mandate a course of study for all schools.  Here is the NEA in its own words from its 2007-2008 Resolutions: "The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience. When home schooling occurs, students enrolled must meet all state curricular requirements, including the taking and passing of assessments to ensure adequate academic progress. Home schooling should be limited to the children of the immediate family, with all expenses being borne by the parents/guardians. Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.
The Association also believes that home-schooled students should not participate in any extracurricular activities in the public schools. The Association further believes that local public school systems should have the authority to determine grade placement and/or credits earned toward graduation for students entering or re-entering the public school setting from a home school setting."

Most of us, parents, have gone to public school.  Few of our generation were homeschooled for even a portion of their educational career, much less for the entire thirteen years.  It has become absolutely ingrained in us to shove our children out of the nest at age five to spend the day among their peers and the educational professionals.  But have you stopped to think, why the public school system wants our children?  Wants them so much that there are laws in all fifty states that give them RIGHTS to our children’s education?  Why do they want them so badly?  Of course it is good for society to be educated but our public schooled nation has been growing more illiterate since the 1930s.  So the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic is not the goal.   Why do they want our children?  They even refer to children at large as “their children.”   Why do we give up so freely what the NEA has gone to great lengths to secure?  I will tell you why they want OUR children.  Because our children are of such high value.  It is time that we started realizing the value of our young people.  It is time we, as parents,  stop and think.  God blessed us with each one of our children.  And we hand them off without so much as a second thought.  It is time to take them back.

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