Posted on 03/31/2017 3:07:19 AM PDT by markomalley
Dr. James Dobson, who started Focus on the Family and now delivers his Christian and pro-family advice through the newer Family Talk radio, is endorsing again the move for parents to withdraw their children from public schools.
At least partly because he’s “shocked” at the values, or lack thereof, exhibited by millennials.
Those are the voters who are about ages 18-34.
Trained as a teacher and psychologist, early in his career he was largely oblivious of the idea of homeschooling, he explained on a recent series of broadcasts featuring guest E. Ray Moore, of the Exodus Mandate, which works to encourage Christian parents to homeschool their own children, or put them in church-run Christian schools.
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Many of us realized this years ago.
Easy to find, but no easy to afford. Not impossible, but very tough. Their cost model needs to change (Wishful thinking).
Also, the biggest problem is high school.
There is no reason why Christian schools can’t incorporate training students to be self studiers, so that the schools themselves only have to handle qualifying students and administrating final tests, etc.
But the schools are free!
He is correct.
The American people believe that:
(1) Their particular school is NOT an “indoctrination center” but has good teaching,
(2) That they cannot afford education beyond the local public school,
(3) All children can and will learn even if many never do.
I can’t think of a single child in my church who attends public school.
I agree too but as I learned forty years ago sending your kids to a Christian school isn’t necessarily a panacea either.
‘Educators’ are educators and it is a profession that attracts those who ‘want to make a difference’. So some of the same cultural rot can occur in religious schools as well.
The difference is that schools where the parents are paying a major part of the tab are more responsive to the wishes and deands of parents.
You just can’t park your kids in any school and expect that things will be all right.
Agreed.
I homeschool my 6th grader, but my 9th grader goes to a private (Baptist) high school. He gets plenty of liberal indoctrination there, by both his Bible and History teachers.
It was the same back in the seventies. The kids would go to the local Episcopal school, get fed full of crap, and then have to endure my de-programming at night. I used to spend as much time on emptying their heads of nonsense as I did helping them with their homework.
However, after a while, they started seeing for themselves what dribble they were being fed and could reason their own way around the teacher’s indoctrination.
It got so bad that the parents staged a coup in the summer of ‘78, fired the headmaster along with over half of the teachers, and hired replacements.
Things smoothed out after that.
Or there is the homeschool route - again, though: easy to find (you're living in it), but not easy to afford (get zero deductions for curriculum and co-ops).
Look at the rising generation. There is clearly something wrong when a society can’t produce functioning adults by age 21.
A lawyer colleague called yesterday to ask my expertise on what a fifth grade public school “teacher” should do. A student used vile sexual language on other student “victims” and is suspected of perping on his younger siblings. It has been “reported” to child services with no action.
Of course, the “teacher” really wants to be an art teacher, not dealing with real world problems. I told her my take on it is the kid needs the teacher to reach out to him and try to assist him, he is obviously in dire need of help.
That the “teacher” is getting paid good money to guide and assist these students and she damn well ought to figure out a way to do her job.
Oh, no, says my friend, the teacher is not trained for that. To which I said BS, she has a degree in child education, she is making the big bucks, do her job.
Oh no, they just want to pass it on to some agency or other and go on their merry way. Many of these “teachers” need to man up or woman up and do their jobs, sick of their whining.
Schooling is our nation's **most** serious threat. I seriously mean this. Americans will not lose their freedom through a military attack. No. No. Instead, freedom will be lost in the voting booth and it is Marxists who are training up the next generation of voters.
Remember!
Nearly every teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. This is true for both government and private schools. While ( obviously) not all teachers are Marxists, their training will leak through into the classroom, curriculum, school policies, assignments, and textbooks.
We are part of a hybrid program run by a church that is basically what you described. It provides a modicum of structure that has really helped us. One day a week they meet with a tutor who administers tests, reviews papers, assigns grades, etc. Our two in high school have required virtually no help from us. They really are self-studiers. The only thing I ever do is critique writing assignments, but I’m a writer so they seek my opinion.
We use a robust classical Christian curriculum that really prepares them for college, not to mention life. Our oldest graduates in a few weeks and we just learned she has earned a full-tuition plus room and board scholarship. She’s also been accepted into a competitive honors college program. I’m certain homeschooling gave her a significant advantage.
The support for Obama in this Catholic school was universal except for my daughter. This was a **Catholic** school, yet Obama voted THREE times against a bill that would provide medical treatment to infants who survived an abortion.
Unbelievable! And...DISGUSTING!
Not so easy: Paying for it.
I send my children to private school. So i have to pay fr them, and I have to pay for the kids who go to public schools.
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