Posted on 01/13/2009 8:10:34 AM PST by achilles2000
COLUMBIA, SC, Jan. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Because of the comprehensive and accelerating failure of the government school system, Exodus Mandate has launched "The Call to Dunkirk", a new initiative calling upon churches and ministries to reorder their priorities so that they can assist parents in rescuing their children from the public schools.
A key stumbling block preventing some Christian leaders from openly calling for the long overdue exodus of Christian families from government education has been the mistaken belief that traditional Christian schools and homeschooling are the only alternatives to government schools.
Consequently, a central focus of "The Call to Dunkirk" message is helping parents and pastors understand that, in addition to the excellent choices of Christian schools and homeschooling, technology now makes inexpensive Christian education alternatives readily available. Theses options are spiritually, morally, and academically superior to government schools and any church, large or small, can easily implement them.
Exodus Mandate recently launched "The Call to Dunkirk" with a short video now available on YouTube that already has received tens of thousands of viewings. In addition, "The Call to Dunkirk" has begun to generate media interest through numerous stories, including headline stories on One News Now and in World Net Daily, and radio appearances on network programs such as Moody Broadcasting Network's popular "Prime Time America" broadcast.
Many small Christian ministries and organizations support the K-12 Christian education or home schooling agenda for renewal of family, church and culture. In the past, however, some of the larger Christian organizations, denominations, and pro-family ministries have mistakenly supported public school reform rather than calling for an exodus of Christian families from the rapidly disintegrating public school system. Fortunately, these ministries are beginning to see that school reform efforts are futile given the manifest failure of school reform and the continued cultural deterioration.
Dr. Bruce Shortt commented saying, "A lot of time has been wasted on school reform. You can no more reform the government school system than you could reform the Soviet collective farm system. The model is a mistake. Conservative school reformers are a lot like Civil War re-enactors who specialize in Pickett's Charge. They never take the high ground; they never really win. What we need today is new leadership."
Dr. Voddie Baucham challenges African-American families saying, "Black families ask me, 'Why should we leave the public schools after our forefathers fought, marched and sometimes died for us to have the right to attend.' My response is simple, our forefathers fought, marched and died so we wouldn't have to settle for the kind of education inflicted on minority children today. We need to march some more. And the first place is out of the front door of these Christ-dishonoring, academically inferior, soul-killing government indoctrination centers."
Dr. Bruce Shortt added, "The Left has always understood that whoever controls the children owns the future. This is why so many of the 60's radicals like Bill Ayers went into education. Now they effectively control the government school system. But worse, we give them our children."
Chaplain E. Ray Moore points out that the 2008 elections conclusively show the failure of the "lobbying, voting and legislative model" most of the pro-family movement have relied on to slow down and reverse the cultural and spiritual slide in the US. Moore further notes, "Christian and pro-family organizations are fighting in the right war but often use the wrong weapons and misdiagnose the real problems. We believe "The Call to Dunkirk" will help large Christian ministries, denominations, pro-family organizations, and families bring the true problem into focus and better understand the many available, practical solutions.
E. Ray Moore, Chaplain (Lt.Col.) USAR Ret., Director of the Exodus Mandate Project; Dr. Bruce Shortt, lawyer and author of THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Dr. Voddie Baucham, Southern Baptist pastor, conference speaker on family and home education and author of FAMILY DRIVEN FAITH will serve as the principal spokesmen for this special one year emergency rescue plan.
To arrange an interview or speaking opportunity with Dr's Bruce Shortt, Voddie Baucham or Chaplain E. Ray Moore, contact Exodus Mandate at www.exodusmandate.org or by phone at 803-714-1744 (wk).
I couldn’t agree more. There is NO HOPE of bringing our country back to traditional morals and beliefs as long as the enemy controls the public schools. And the preferred solution is not to retreat into the equivalent of desert monateries while the world goes to hell, but to convert the world.
Not everyone can afford to home school their children, financially or intellectually or morally. People pay taxes to support the public schools, yet are expected to send their kids to private religious schools or homeschool them as well.
No, we need to take back the public schools.
As things stand, conservative, Christian families have far more kids than liberals, but liberals take those kids and pervert them. That’s the only reason why the culture continues to move left.
I once thought, for instance, that as abuses in our public colleges continued to multiply, with kids being taught to bend gender and hate their parents, legislators would finally act. Well, they haven’t. Instead, they are busy supporting gay rights in public colleges. That kind of thing will only end if the religious conservatives get serious about ending it, instead of thinking they can isolate their kids from the culture in cocoons. Unfortunately, those kids will eventually have to go out into the world and deal with it.
Augustine lays it out in “The City of God.” Christians are like exiles in this world, but as long as they are living in the eartnly city they owe it to their neighbors and themselves to try to make that city a better place, even though their true home is the Heavenly City. The left is very happy when they can drive Christian conservatives back into their homes and keep them out of politics. And the worst thing about RINO politicians is that they love to help the Democrats disenfranchise religious conservatives. They cannot be allowed to succeed.
We need to fight so that eventually we retake our public schools. But meanwhile, we need to take our children’s educations into our own hands. We homeschooled. It was inexpensive. What is the biggest cost? That the teaching spouse not work. I bought little workbooks, went to the library for books, paper costs little, old encyclopedia set cost $10. Our son got VERY HIGH SAT scores.
We might reform public education, but it will be a grain of sand at a time, one teacher who gets it in her particular classroom, IF her Principal lets her do it her way.
The Catholic schools were formed for this very reason, long ago. The public schools were teaching secular subjects even then. Catholic nuns/ diocese stepped in and created the schools THEY envisioned. And taught for free.
There is always a way. The cost is in time and effort expended, as it is with anything of true value.
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Just sent this to a friend of mine who is a principal at a Catholic School.
That has to start with holding school board members accountable to a big bunch of like-minded 'stakeholders'.
Learn of, illuminate and attack leftist, anti-American, homosexual and anti-Christian indoctrination in the schools.
Flood board meetings, inboxes and mailboxes with concerns and demands.
Demand that reprints of the NEA's 1951 edition of "The American Citizens Handbook" be given to every student as a reading assignment.
This would be a start.
Thank the nearest liberal for the disaster called public education!
I don’t disagree with you, but those were the days when the problem with the public schools was that they were largely Protestant, and strongly prejudiced against Catholics.
Now the Protestants have basically been outlawed, too. I think a coalition of Catholics and Evangelicals, working together, could gradually straighten this out. Such a coalition on reforming the schools should be possible, as it has been in the right to life movement. That, too, has been painfully difficult and slow, but if not for the RINO betrayal we would be in reach of our goal. And we are still going to press forward on that front.
That is interesting - I just sent this to a friend who teaches at a Catholic School here in Panama City Beach, FL! It looks like the school will be closing and I thought it would be great if some of these teachers start a home school! They can use my home if they need to!
You will never “take back the public schools”. That model has been tried and has failed for decades for reasons that are obvious ($600 billion /year buys a lot of friends).
Frankly, the economic excuse for not removing children is wearing thin. A parent can, for example, provide a child with a full service homeschool program through CLASS for less than $50/month. The materials are superior to any to be found in any government school. In addition to the money, a parent needs to give his child about 10 hours a week.
As for the “What about my “free” daycare” wail that we hear from so many parents...they need to grow up and figure out a solution with friends neighbors, grandparents, other homeschoolers, etc. A majority of parents can do this, and if even another 20% did it, the government schools would be “reformed” out of existence.
Socialism is immoral, and government schools are just socialism in education. People need to kick their addiction to their government school welfare entitlement. That would do more to change the direction of the country than anything else we are still free to do. And, it could be done overnight.
BTW, this isn’t directed at you personally. My only point to you is that you have the wrong solution.
We should analyze what assumptions families are going on to keep doing this non-self-interested action.
We can also thank the nearest parent who supports the system by contributing his little “revenue units” to it (along with their minds, as well as all of th egovernment school apologists). As Pogo says: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Thanks! Perhaps we can start thinking of Christian education again as evangelism.
One of the reasons it is so difficult to reform public schools is because when a new superintendent comes in (or a new school board for that matter) he brings his own curriculum choices and methods and expects everyone to follow them. So, if a school is doing fairly well and test scores are fairly good, you run the risk of a board appointing a superintendent who thinks he’ll “make it better.” These superintendents stay for a couple of years, not even completing their contracts, and then take off to greener pastures, many times leaving a disaster in their wake and a chaotic future for the next district that gets them. Too many fads and damaging ones at that.
I’ve seen it happen and it ain’t pretty.
So many government school pathologies and so little time to describe them ;-)
I am reminded of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. The Iranians used little children to sweep the fields for landmines. After the children were blown up, then the adult soldiers passed through the fields.
Sending children into the atheistic government schools is like using children as spiritual landmine sweepers!!! YES! It is **that** serious! Geeze! The Iranian children merely lost their lives. Our children lose their eternal souls!
If every Christian removed their child from the government schools, and then organized a school tax revolt at the polls, the atheistic Marxist government schools could be closed completely down within a year!
That is the solution that is needed.
The government schools system isn't broken. There is nothing to “take back”. The goal of the government schools from the very inception has been **socialism**! Their goal has always been to create good little workers who worship the state. It is doing an excellent job! It is working perfectly!!!
In the past our family values were able overcome the influences of the socialistic government schools, but with each generation the government school indoctrination makes more and more inroads. We are not at a critical point. The government schools must be SHUT DOWN. The best way to do that is to remove your kids and organize a legal tax revolt.
A Christian's **most** important and **most** urgent mission field is his **own** children!!!!
A Christians next most important mission field are the children of his **own** congregation!!!
When the needs of these two groups of children are met, only then should a Christian look farther afield for souls to save.
A good point well stated.
Thank you. I value your opinion highly. What a nice compliment!
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