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I recommend reading the A.L.Reynold's entire letter to World Net Daily. His or her letter merely confirms my belief that Christians teachers should quit their government school jobs.

1) If A.J. Reynolds is teaching what he believes and knows to be false, what he is doing is breaking one of the Ten Commandments. He is bearing false witness to his students every day. What sort of "Christian" examples is lying?

2) Why would any Christian teacher agree to use text books that teach lies to students? If the students know that the teacher is a Christian isn't this teaching the students that Christians agree to, aid, and abet lying?

3)If teachers "must be very careful never to say anything that doesn't toe the party line", I ask, "What 'party'? The atheistic Marxist 'party' line?"

4) How is it possible to serve two masters? It is not possible to serve a secular, agnostic, or even atheistic master and Christ, nor is it possible to be lukewarm about Christianity.

5) A.L.Reynolds states, "Still following my calling at a tremendous price." Maybe it is costing so much in emotional energy pricely because he or she is deceived that teaching in a government school is a "calling".

6) If 85% of children from Christian homes leave the faith after graduation from high school (homeschoolers: 90% faithful). If children with Christian parents have such a poor track record, then what possible influence could a Christian teacher have on non-Christian children who go home to non-Christian homes every night? In my opinion: none! What the Christian teacher is doing is worse! The Christian teacher is doing is aiding, abetting, enabling, and supporting the atheistic government institution.

7)If the Christian teacher is a member of the NEA, he is directly giving money to an enemy of Christianity. ( Just read their website.)

Solution: Christian teachers should quit their government jobs!

The most urgent and important mission call of any Christian is their OWN children and the children of their OWN congregations!!!

Get your own children OUT of government schools and work to get the children of your congregation out of government schools.

Establish private Christian schools, or ( better still) establish "one room school house" cooperatives among your congregation members. Christian teachers could be a wonderful resource to the Christians in your neighborhoods and congregations.

Once there is a well-functioning education program in your congregation take in other non-Christians, but only as many as would not overwhelm the Christian culture of the school or "one room schools". Mentor and love the parents of these non-Christian children and teach them to be good parents.

Work to establish private Christian scholarship foundations so that every child in the U.S. who wanted a Christian education could get one. If Harvard can have a 35$ BILLION ( with a "B") endowment then Christians could to the same. We could do it if we wanted.

Christian government teachers it is time to give it up! You should not be teaching lies. You should not be hiding your light or suppressing you open testimony for most of the day. You should not be giving money to the NEA. You should not be enabling a god-less, atheistic, or agnostic government indoctrination camps.

( I have not proofed this. Gotta run!)

Many Christians can't afford to put their kids in Christian schools, but any church should be able to use programs like "The Truth Project" by Focus on the Family or other similar programs to teach their kids a Christian worldview and how to recognize the lies that they hear in school.

Just last night, I was teaching my kid about existentialsim and how it leads to despair, and how it does NOT reflect a Christian worldview. His 11th-grade Advanced Placement English teacher has had his students read Camus' "The Stranger", Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and 3 other existentialist plays. I told my kid that the teacher is trying to influence the students' thinking, and that the students, and their parents, don't realize that the students are in a philosophy class rather than just an English class. When we finished our discussion, my kid prayed for the other kids in his class and that the Christian kids wouldn't lose their faith. I was so proud of him.

I understand your reasoning on this issue but don’t think it’s a good idea myself. I know several strong Christians that teach at the public school and college level and consider it their mission field.

I’ve had Christian profs and teachers and I’ve been very grateful for them. Aside from the fact that I know they won’t hold my worldview against me, I have always found them to be the best teachers I’ve had by far. Their commitment to excellence and desire to be a good testimony by doing the best job possible has given me a better education for that.

Missionaries are needed everywhere, and I shudder to think what the system would be like without the moderating influence and prayer of those committed Christians in the battlefield.

If God calls someone into teaching, I don’t see that it’s any different than someone who is called to be a missionary in a communist or muslim country. We are to be salt. Salt must be sprinkled everywhere to be effective.

Again, I understand your reasoning and certainly don’t disagree with all of it, but I think there is a need for Christian teachers. Seeing the environment that some kids grow up in, it likely to be the ONLY Christian exposure these kids will ever get.