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.
The government schools would get worse faster.
This is exactly what is needed. The faster good people abandon the government cesspools, the quicker, and more likely, that good people will organize the massive school tax revolt needed to drain the secularist, atheistic, Marxist, government school swamp.
What's needed here is complete collapse of the government schools system, and starting over from scratch with a completely private system.
Missionaries are needed everywhere,
Missionaries seem to be everywhere except saving their own children and the children of their own congregations! If that isn't their most important mission field then what on earth is????!!!
85% of children from Christian homes leave the faith within 2 years of graduation from government schools. Where are the Christian teachers to save them???!! What a loss of valiant youth! What a loss of armies future missionaries that could be bringing the lost of this nation to Christ!
there is a need for Christian teachers
Given the abysmal stats on retention in the faith of government schooled youth, as compared to the excellent retention of homeschoolers, yes, (indeed!), we do need Christian teachers. We needed them to support Christian homeschoolers, and they are needed in formal brick and mortar Christian schools as well. Once Christian education is straightened, then we can **truly** and effectively mentor and be effective missionaries to non-Christian students and their parents.
As for government schools, it is against the law to be a truly Christian teacher in a government school.