1) Children should not be used as cannon balls in a cultural war that should be fought by grown ups. This is especially true of a innocent child who is a mere 5 years old and likely still needs help with some bathroom activities and likely can't tie his shoes.
2) Government schools need two things: Students and money. Taking a child out of the government school starves the beast of a student ( and the money that comes from the government for that student). Electing representatives who will cut off the money will starve the beast, as well.
3) Go ahead and run for the school board. Doing so will never make a socialist school system into one that is not socialist. That is impossible. At best you might possibly achieve some sort of lukewarm and generic Protestant worldview for the curriculum. We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!
He doesn’t need help with bathroom activities but if he had shoes with laces, he would probably need help with that. As for the rest, it’s a wheat and chaff thing. I can tell him what to retain and what to throw away. Will it be hard, yeah, probably.
If I did manage to get a seat on the school board I would suggest that the EIB be broadcast in the cafeterias.
Sooo, how are things going to change if you totally retreat from them?
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It is not retreating, it is reloading for the long haul and fighting the battle on our terms. The other point is this; all we have been doing over the years is retreating. Prayer out of school, ok we will yell a little but accept it. Then on down the slippery slope; NO, not condoms in school, but then ok, my child will done soon. Now it is homo sex ed for 6 year olds and on and on. Why wouldn’t you retreat from that and use the weapons, no students and no money, to fight this on our own turf. And save your own kids in the process.