Exodus Mandate Challenges Churches and Ministries to Confront Education Catastrophe

Christian Newswire ^ | January 13, 2009 | Exodus Mandate

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PING! ( possible interest to Catholics.)

46% of Mass attending Catholics voted for the Death Eater Obama.

Perhaps if Catholic children had been removed from government schools, we would not have had this massive number of Catholics voting for an abortion and infanticide supporting presidential candidate.

Kansas City offers every Catholic child in its diocese a tuition **FREE** Catholic education. All Christians ( Catholic and Protestant) could learn from this example.

[Cicero]

I’m not saying that anyone has to send their kids to public schools. I’m saying that they should ALSO try to mend the public schools.

There are several reasons.

1. We should be concerned about how our neighbors’ kids are being educated, as well as our own.

2. We should be concerned about the culture. Sure, Christians sometimes have to deal with unfriendly cultures and even persecution. But this used to be a Christian nation. Should we just sit on our hands while it is turned into something evil?

3. The more our neighbors’ kids are miseducated, the more they will vote for leftist politicians determined to drive Christianity out of the public sphere.

4. If this is a free country, then we need a certain mass of religious training and belief among the voters to keep our freedoms. Otherwise, we will descend into some sort of evil totalitarian state. Will we then be given the choice to homeschool our kids? If we pass a certain tipping point, the politicians might just take that right to educate our kids away from us. Then the fat will really be in the fire.

It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Obama outlawed homeschooling. The teachers union would love it.

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There are enough Christian still left in this nation that if we put our mind ( and money) to the effort we could:

1) Close down government schooling within a year.

2) Offer the opportunity for a tuition **free** Christian education to every child in the nation. ( Maybe even the world!)

We need leadership, belief in God's Providence, and the willingness to make it happen.

Harvard alone has a $35 BILLION dollar endowment. Universities across the nation have endowments in the BILLIONS and multi-millions. Surely Christians could endow Christian K-12 education to the same extent.

Christians need to do 4 things:

1) Endow **conservative** Christian education foundations that would issue grants to individual teachers. The teachers could open mini-schools, micro-schools, one room school houses, and homeschool cooperatives. The foundations would certify the teacher and the curriculum, and test the students for progress.

2) Abandon the brick and mortar Prussian style school. It is expensive and fraught with too many zoning issues.

3) Lobby to have all sports, music, theater, and arts programs moved to the county parks and recreation departments. In many communities these programs generate a tremendous amount of “rah rah” support for the government schools in the voting booth. Get them out of the government schools and community support for the government school is lessened.

4) Set up systems so that the Marxists can never gain control of these education foundations in the way they took over other philanthropic organizations ( for example the Ford Foundation).

[goldi]

“We should be concerned about how our neighbors’ kids are being educated, as well as our own.”

Parents have only to be concerned about their own children’s education, not their neighbor’s children down the street, that’s their parents’ responsibility. Shared blame of public schools is a favorite cop-out from public school officials who want everyone to embrace public schools and their failures.

Obama isn’t going to outlaw homeschooling. It’s a state matter, not a federal matter. If he is stupid enough to do that, he can kiss his presidency goodbye. Homeschooling survived and thrived even in Clinton’s and the Hildebeast’s regime. It’s grown too large now, with more adherents — conservative, liberal, religious, nonreligious — it’s not going to go away — all sorts of people are unhappy with public education for one reason or another. I wish conservatives would realize that.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

“Missionary work is NOT child's play. It is abusive to send children into battle to do a man's job!”

Agree 100%. When we told people in our former church that we were homeschooling our children, they responded by saying they wanted their children to be salt and light. I told them that I wasn't willing to sacrifice my children on the altar of salt and light. Of course they have made a huge impact to people they do come in contact with. They are a joy to be around and that is in large part because they have been kept away from negative influence.