"Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday Schools, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
--Charles Francis Potter, a leading Humanist, in his book, Humanism: A New Religion.
American's are farther behind in educational status than countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China. The teachers spend too much time on the little things and forget the real reason why the children are there. Not only that, but the textbooks hold inaccurate information and do not contain the whole story. Some textbooks stated that the atomic bomb ended the Korean War (instead of World War II) and that only 53,000, rather than 126,000 Americans, were killed in World War I (Klicka 24 25). One book summarizes Abraham Lincoln's and George Washington's life in approximately six lines each. Not only are the wrong things written in the textbooks, they teach the children wrong values. In public school textbooks, marriage is never mentioned as the foundation of the family, and yet these books are supposed to be the textbooks that introduce the child to an understanding of American society. Abortion is another issue. Mel and Norma Gabler's document states, "Abortion is discussed as an aspect of birth control in biology and health and homemaking books" (Klicka 56). Not only that, virtually all sex education textbooks used in public schools throughout the country teach that any kind of sex is all right; such as premarital sex, adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, and lesbianism.
One example of humanism in our schools is that they teach evolution, not creationism. Some people believe that this problem is happening because of the removal of God and prayer in public schools; the U.S. Supreme Court did this in 1962. Beginning in 1962, SAT scores plummeted. Teen pregnancies, teen sexual diseases, teen suicides, teen alcohol, drug abuse, pornography, and illiteracy rates abruptly increased 200 to 300 percent (Klicka 48). Violence is one of the main factors effecting are schools today. Rape is a growing problem among juveniles. A juvenile commits one out of every five rapes that occur in the United States. There is also a higher use of drugs and alcohol among kids in public schools. Over 80 percent of public high school students drink alcohol and 45.7 percent have used marijuana. Drugs and alcohol make most people extremely violent. That is also why our violence and crime rates are so high. Over hundreds of millions of dollars are spend on the security of our nation's public schools.
A human tendency is to do that which is most familiar. After all, the parents reason, "We went to the Public Schools, and they didn't do us any harm, so how could they hurt our children?" I challenge you as a parent, to pray about it. Examine the Biblical conclusions and try to disprove them. I do not stand alone in warning parents to keep their children out of government schools. Martin Luther warned parents about schools over four centuries ago. His warning is as relevant today as it was then:
"I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts ofyouth. I advise no one to place their child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the word of God must become corrupt." Martin Luther, A.D. 1537
Our government has boiled the American people into a state of blindness and made them believe that the education of their children is like it was in the "good old days." Even the schools of the '50s and 60s that many parents attended were already heading down the slippery road to corruption. When the Ten Commandments and school prayer were replaced with the religion of secular humanism, the schools' demise was predictable-as Martin Luther wrote. By failing to honor God and expelling Him from the schools, we have hurt our children and incurred God's displeasure on our nation.
The pity of giving children to the government to educate is that the government is dedicated to fostering atheism and relativism. Many parents will reply, "I came through the system all right," or "I know many students who have not lost their faith." The question parents need to consider is this: "Do you want to play Russian roulette with your children?"
For every success story there are countless other accounts of shipwrecked children who have lost their zeal for the Lord and have conformed to the standards of their peers. Satan is a clever devil. He will allow some "wheat" to come through the system so as to deceive the parents as to the real nature of godless government education.
The bottom line is this: "What does the Bible have to say on the matter?"
By the way, are our children, our children, or are we stewards of our children? God desires that our children be raised for His glory. Christian parents need to ask, "Does the current educational system in government schools accomplish the task of preparing children to be useful for the Lord?"
Can you imagine what God would have done if the Israelites had sent their children to the Philistines or the Egyptians for their education? Then why do Christian parents continue to send their children to schools dedicated to the destruction of their minds and morals? Another question to consider is this: "If Christ were visibly walking among us today and we could ask Him directly if we should place our Christian children in the atheistic government schools of America, how do you suppose He would reply?"
"Will your children keep the faith when they graduate from high school?"
Homeschooled:94%
Public Schooled:15%
Reasons for homeschooling:
1. I want to guide my children's Christian character development at home rather than allow them to be "socialized" by secular, untrained, unsupervised schoolmates.
2. Each child is diffrent, therefore it is impossible for a public school teacher to meet every child's learning needs, when there is a class full of 30 kids.
3.A child is at school all day and then is expected to do homework when he/she gets home. Where is the family time? A child waking up early every day and working all day is to hard on a child and overwhelming. Children these days are rushed to grow up and not just be kids. They end up hating school or enjoy going only for social reasons.
4. In homeschool you are free to pick whatever curriculum fits your child's needs and work on a subject longer when needed. Your child can learn at his/her own pace. A parent can give unlimited individual attention.
5.To guard my children against secular, immorality, violence and a humanistic worldview of the public school. So that when ready they will be able to be mature and confident enough to know the truth and defend it.
6. To be able to control what my children are studing and are being exposed to without being "labeled" intolerant and narrow-minded
7. To equip them with the truth of Creation AND then teach them evolution and other humanistic idea's so they can defend their faith.
8. To keep them under my authority until they are grown, rather than place them under unknown authorities at a school.
9.There is no wasted time such as going to one class to another or riding the bus, but rather all of life is a classroom. Every activity or involvement is a learning opportunity.
10. Rather than a child conforming to the social norms of his/her mates and school, a homeschool child learns to relate effectively to other people in all kinds of relationships. Relational experiences with family, friends, work, ministry, church, neighborhood and community.
11.In homeschool I can use real books and real life to make a place where my children will love to learn as naturally as they love to play. My options are endless!!!!!!!!
Critics of home schooling attack it on many fronts, arguing that children are not taught by qualified professionals, homes often do not possess the resources of schools, home-schooled children tend to be isolated from their peers, and systematic evaluation of children's learning rarely occurs in the home (Simmons 1994)." Yet, research does show that home schooled children are equal, if not better than, those students in public school environment are. Almost all reports have shown that home schooled students score above average on standard achievement tests. This could be because children have more one- on-one experience. Being above average in their curriculum, home schooled students also have little difficulty being accepted into colleges and universities.
Did you know that by grade eight, the average homeschooled student performs four grade levels above their public and private school counterparts? More importantly, is that I want to prepare my children for Heaven not Harvard. After all, God wants the heart of your child more than their education.
Children that are taught at home tend to have stronger relationships with his or her father or mother. This is because first, the children only usually spend, on the average, two to three hours per day receiving instruction. The typical student at a public school spends 367 hours (more than two hours a day) in activities such as lunch, recess, and class changing. There is a lot of time wasted each day that a child could be learning something else.
Do we really want to spend everyday undoing what our children are being taught? Life seems hard enough as it is. With temptations and humanistic idea's always coming at your kids. Not to mention the pressure to be cool and fit in or be made fun of. Peers seem to be the ones educating our children more than the adults these days.
You may say home-schooled children aren't in the "real world" Never in the rest of their lives will children interact with 20-30 age-mates in a sterile, isolated classroom totally segregated from real living experiences. The "real world" of home, family, work and ministry prepares children to work with people of ALL ages in actual situations that they will experience as alduts. Home-schooled children are significantly above public school norms for social skills and development, and for "self-esteem." To most non-home schoolers, socialization means "regular exposure to peers of the same age and grade,"the process of instilling socal skills necessary for relating effectively to other people."A propely socialized child, then, knows how to relate to other people, whether young or old, male or female, different or similiar. They can feel secure and significant, able to act independently of peers. If the goal of socialization is greater maturtiy, that comes from being around mature alduts. A observer might look for two diseased trees in order to condemn the entire forest. Try not to focus on one or two unstable families who gave home schooling a bad name. There are tens of thosands of "normal" families.
Jesus said:"Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they both fall into the pit? A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher."-Luke 6:39,40
Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Isaiah 54:13, Proverbs 22:6, Jeremiah 10:2, Proverbs13:20, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Psalm 78:1-7, Matthew 18:6, 2 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Timothy 2:16, 17a
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