Posted on 01/02/2009 2:45:20 PM PST by IbJensen
Critics of America's public school system have launched a new effort highlighting the need for Christians to exit the system.
The initiative -- dubbed The Call to Dunkirk was launched by Dr. Bruce Shortt, author of The Harsh Truth About Public Schools; Rev. Voddie Baucham, author of Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God; and the founder and director of the Exodus Mandate Project, retired U.S. Army Chaplain Lt. Col. E. Ray Moore.
Moore explains the proposal. "The Call to Dunkirk is a special emergency effort to try to get other ministries, churches, pastors, and the major Christian right and pro-family movement to join with us and the other K-12 home-school ministries in rescuing the children from the public schools during the year 2009," he says.
Although Christians have fought other aspects of the culture war such as homosexual "marriage," Moore contends they are losing the fight when it comes to the education of their children.
" The real target of the liberals and the left has always been the children. And we can see in California where the conservatives won Proposition 8 -- the vote [was] 52 to 48 [percent] -- but...when Proposition 22 was voted on [in March 2000], they had a 61-percent margin of victory. So the culture is turning against Christianity and against the pro-family movement primarily because we've allowed our children to be educated in their schools," he adds. "They're converting our children; we're not converting them."
The Call to Dunkirk gets its name from the historical WWII event when the Allied forces of England and France were run out of Europe, but ordinary citizens rallied to their aid and used their own boats to help more than 300,000 soldiers escape safely in order to return again on D-Day.
It's always been about the children! The DemocRATs, homosexuals and their sycophants want to get their perverted hands on our kids!
Homosexuality and liberalism go hand-in-hand and share the NAMBLA beliefs.
Exodus?
A good analogy ... but....
This time the parting of the Red Sea will involve sucking up money supporting teacher’s unions.
We know the problem. What is the solution? Not everyone can home-school or afford private schools. Maybe Christians need to run for local school boards and state level education jobs. We just let the left take control of the schools and didn’t even put up a fight. And there are still some wonderful, God-fearing, Christian teachers. They just don’t have much support.
We know the problem. What is the solution? Not everyone can home-school or afford private schools. Maybe Christians need to run for local school boards and state level education jobs. We just let the left take control of the schools and didn’t even put up a fight. And there are still some wonderful, God-fearing, Christian teachers. They just don’t have much support.
From the Hitler Youth to the NEA it has always been about the minds of the children. After our experience with our first child in the public schools we sent our second to private school and then home schooled him from 4th grade on. The first child went to one of the best public school systems in the country, Fairfax County in Virginia. Our home schooler got a much better education.
Well, sort of....In 2000 the momentum was with the Bush voters. We had all the new voters, the great organization, etc. This time all the ballot initiatives benefited from the Obama tidal wave. Lots of lefties, homos, college kids and other weirdos who normally don't vote turned out en-mass for Obama. In some Santa Barbara precincts we had over 100% voter turn-out. Normally we are well under 50%.
Since the legislators will not move against the godless evil unions, the only thing is a national resistance....withdrawe all kids from all public schools. What we need is a leader to do this.
You can't believe what your kids are being taught.
Not to mention the ghetto cultures they're being forced to adapt to. I was at the grocery store the other night and a teenage Black girl in line was talking on the phone and said, "Girl, where you at?" I couldn't help but laugh.
What to me is so amazing is that conservatives have not awakened to this reality sooner!
The phrase "Where you at?" is a tagline for a cellphone service.
I don't know of any English teachers that teach that phrase as correct.
Almost 15 years ago I read an article by Cal Thomas that stated until conservatives exited the public school systems, en masse, the system would just continue to deteriorate.
That article made so much sense to me, we decided at that point to homeschool, and have never regretted the decision.
I think that George Bush and No Child Left Behind lulled conservatives into a false sense of security. ‘Public education’ has been a bastion of conservative illusion and liberal invincibility. Obama is a ‘wake-up’ call to ‘traditional Americans’.
Withholding property taxes results in confiscation.
(Revolution?)
I didn't know that. I must say, I'm no where near the 'mainstream' of American culture. I don't even own a cell phone and have only spoken on one once, so....
(And, I'm a retired chip-maker...no, not potato, lol)
We were able to afford Christian schooling for our children. They both graduated in the top 2% of their college class.
Of course, we drove the same car year after year, didn’t have x-boxes and expensive summer camps, but what we saved on beer and cigarettes, acrylic nail appointments, bass boats, brand name clothing, video games, eating out, and all those other unnecessary items paid the cost.
In my experience, people use the “can’t afford it” excuse to maintain their materialistic lifestyle intact and aren’t as concerned about raising their children well as they profess....basically ...selfishness.
Send your kids to public school 35 hours a week and wonder why you can’t overcome the humanistic godless garbage they learn and adopt...???
Duh
Well, I think all families who can homeschool should at least give it a try.
Totally agree........if you want a “superior product”.
Narses: This may interest those on the Catholic ping list.
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